Some 73 interns employed by the Public Service Commission, under the Affordable Housing Programme (AHP) cohort 1 in Nyamira County, have successfully been deployed to various construction sites within the region.
Nyamira County Director of Housing and Urban Development, Boaz Mireri, confirmed to KNA that the county is constructing affordable residential houses, affordable accommodation villages in 4 technical institutions and modern markets in various recommended locations within the county, where the just-recruited interns have been deployed.
“In our county, the department of Housing and Urban Development is supervising construction of affordable houses in the Sironga area in Nyamira South sub-county and the Manga area in Manga Sub County.
“We are at the same time supervising construction of state-of-the-art affordable hostel villages in three Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) institutions and one at Kenya Medical Training college,” Mireri confirmed.
“We have a total of 73 interns who have been deployed in seven construction sites within the county, which are at various construction stages, to enable them to be exposed to hands-on skills and experience on various concepts and theories they learnt at colleges and universities,” the director further elaborated.
Mireri said the initiative by the government to employ interns was very timely because they will be very handy in assisting site managers to seamlessly coordinate various tasks, besides giving immediate feedback on the progress of works at the construction site.
“The work being undertaken at the construction site is immense and at the same time overwhelming, as most contractors lack adequate professional human personnel to assist in coordinating these interrelated tasks on site.
The interns will be very handy in ensuring they prepare detailed daily reports on the progress of works in all these sites, noting down any challenges and hitches for quick intervention by the supervising department of housing and urban development,” he observed.
Mireri advised all the interns to adhere to professional ethics as stipulated by the Public Service Commission (PSC).
He particularly directed them to uphold confidentiality while handling government information as they execute their duties.
The interns in Nyamira and others in all the 47 counties have been deployed on a 12 month nonrenewable contract to help in fast-tracking daily updates on the progress of infrastructure projects in line with the President’s blueprint, the Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA).
By Deborah Bochere
