Govt gives PCs, DCs a lifeline with deployment

Dr Ekuru Aukot, the director at the Committee of Experts that drafted the new Constitution said in an earlier interview with Business Daily: “The provincial administration will be restructured within five years to fit with the system of devolution and the operations of the county government.”

Dr Mutua, however, said most of the current provincial administration personnel will find similar roles under the county structure with positions that fail to fit getting scrapped.

The changes at the provincial levels are expected to affect many departments of government across the country.

For example the police and other agencies will have to reorganise their command structure to fit into the county system, said Dr Mutua.

The new Constitution entrusts the authority to register persons and maintenance of law and order throughout the country in the hands of the central government.

“If these regional commissioners are to be in charge of these tasks, then they must report directly to internal security minister not the governor and this will cause conflict,” said Dr Oloo.

The government has also redrawn boundaries to capture counties and a new map with counties will soon be unveiled.

He proposes that the central government should enter into negotiation with governors so that they regional commissioners can report directly to them before they in turn report to the internal security minister.

Dr Mutua said the government has also redrawn the borders of all the 47 counties and that a new map will be unveiled soon.

The Interim Boundaries Commissioner had earlier post-poned the exercise to wait for the release of the national population census - a task which planning minister Wycliffe Oparanya accomplished on Monday this week.