President William Ruto on Tuesday, November 19, 2024, promised Kenyans that his government would deliver better services and solve all the outstanding challenges.

Speaking after signing the second performance contract agreement with his cabinet secretaries, Ruto indicated that his administration would fix the challenges that have derailed his plan for the country.

“There is no room for delay or failure to make Kenya thrive. We will bite the bullet and sort out the sticky issues that have derailed our transformation. That is why we are building synergies that will deliver – on scale and with urgency – on our commitments,” Ruto said.

During the signing of the contracts, the head of state reiterated that he would not tolerate cabinet secretaries, who for whatever reason, failed to meet their set targets for the year.

“What we signed today are action plans that need urgent execution. I expect each CS to take responsibility for what they signed. There is no room for excuses, delay or failure,” Ruto said.

CS Absent

In the meeting attended by Attorney-General Dorcas Oduor, Deputy President Kithure Kindiki, Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi and other cabinet secretaries, only the Cabinet Secretary for Information Communication and Digital Economy Margaret Nyambura was absent.

Mudavadi signed three performance contract agreements for the three dockets he currently holds: Foreign Affairs, Interior and National Administration and the Ministry of Culture & Heritage.

CSs commitments

Among the assurances made to the president by the cabinet secretaries are the registration of 200,000 more farmers with the e-voucher system by the Agriculture CS Andrew Karanja who also promised to deliver more than 12 million bags of fertilizer by the year 2025.

Lands, Public Works & Housing CS Alice Wahome promised to deliver at least 280,000 title deeds in all 47 counties and construct 66,155 affordable housing units and 52,758 social housing units to various stages of completion by June 2025.

Various other ministries also signed their commitments to the agreements following weeks of negotiation and drafting of the deliverables in a process supervised by the Deputy Chief of Staff in the Executive Office of President Eliud Owalo who is in charge of Performance Delivery Management and overseen by the Secretary to the cabinet Mercy Wanjau.

In the last performance contract signing meeting of 2023, Ruto criticized some of the members of his cabinet for lateness and revealed that a sizeable number of them had no clue about what their dockets demanded.