{"id":112354,"date":"2025-03-23T09:03:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T09:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/23\/govt-announces-plans-to-set-up-administrative-units-across-the-country\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T09:03:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T09:03:54","slug":"govt-announces-plans-to-set-up-administrative-units-across-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/govt-announces-plans-to-set-up-administrative-units-across-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt announces plans to set up administrative units across the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KISUMU, Kenya, Mar 23 \u2013<\/strong> <strong>The Interior Ministry has announced plans to set up administrative units across the country based on needs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo, says the Ministry is developing a policy to guide the establishment of such administrative units.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing forward as a ministry under the leadership of Cabinet Secretary Kipchuma Murkomen, we are working on a policy direction that will make it neat to create administrative units going forward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Omollo says any justification to create a unit will be guided by the parameters that will be developed under the new policy.<\/p>\n<p>He says the Ministry is striving to ensure there is equitable creation of administrative units across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Kuria West, Migori County on Saturday during an economic empowerment program, the PS says the administrative units are key in keeping the country safe from internal conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>He assured Kuria West MP Mathis Robi and his Kuria East counterpart Marwa Kitayama of the government\u2019s commitment to ensure security in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will work closely to ensure we operationalize all the administrative units from the lowest to the highest level,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Omollo noted that units that have been dormant in the two constituencies will start work.<\/p>\n<p>The PS spoke a few days after he appeared before the National Assembly Committee on Security and National Administration, where he decried lack of funding to fully operationalize all the 24 newly gazetted sub-counties.<\/p>\n<p>He told the Committee that the Ministry is seeking an additional Sh. 3 billion to operationalize the remaining eight sub-counties, prioritizing regions facing persistent security threats.<\/p>\n<p>While in Kuria, the PS also took the opportunity to itemize government projects ongoing in the region for the benefits of the locals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have affordable housing units being constructed in Mabera, we have roads under construction here and a number of projects for the people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Omollo further announced that three markets in Mabera, Kehancha and Isebania are being constructed by the government to improve the working space for traders.<\/p>\n<p>He says the markets will have flowing water, constant power to help in dealing with post-harvest losses of produce.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISUMU, Kenya, Mar 23 \u2013 The Interior Ministry has announced plans to set up administrative units across the country based on needs. Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo, says the Ministry is developing a policy to guide the establishment of such administrative units. \u201cGoing forward as a ministry under the leadership of Cabinet Secretary Kipchuma Murkomen, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}