The Great Nairobi Walk against Corruption

On 22nd October 2010, KCDN and CCNSET will be joining KACC in The Great Nairobi Walk against Corruption. The walk will be flagged off at Integrity Centre by the KACC Advisory Board Chairman Mr. Okong'o Omugeni and we will walk down Nyerere Road led by the Administration Police Band.

We will proceed to University Way, Moi Avenue, Harambee Avenue, Taifa Road, City Hall Way and terminate the peaceful procession at the entrance to the Mayor's Parlour where our Chief Guest will appreciate the participation of Kenyans in this fight.
L-R; Odhiambo T Oketch with Mr. Phillip Oketch CEO Oxygen Media and Mr. Jimmy Gathu of Royal Media in a planning session for the Great Nairobi Walk against Corruption

The walk will also be in appreciation of efforts being put in place by the Governmental and the City Council of Nairobi on Service Delivery.

We are happy that the Director KACC has nominated Prof Jane Onsongo to Chair the Organizing Team. Dr. Kemoli Akidiva of KACC is the Alternate Chair while Odhiambo T Oketch of KCDN and CCNSET is the Co-Chair and the Event Coordinator. The Town Clerk has nominated Mr. Dan Masetu- an Assistant Town Clerk [R&D} to sit in the committee while the PC Nairobi has seconded Ms Mercy Gatobu- Deputy PC Nairobi. The PPO Nairobi Mr. Anthony Kibuchi has seconded Mr. Wilfred Mbithi- Director of Operations Nairobi Area.

Mr. Jimmy Gathu of Royal media will help coordinate the event while Mr. Chris Kinyua- A Nairobi Businessman who sits at the KCDN Board will help with Resource Mobilization.


KCDN will receive and account for all the support.  The event is being coordinated by the following committee;

Organizing Team;

1.      Prof Jane Onsongo- Chair- Deputy Director KACC

2.      Dr. Kemoli Akidiva- Alternative Chair- Principal Officer Education- KACC

3.      Mr. Odhiambo T Oketch- Co-Chair and Event Coordinator- CEO KCDN

4.      Mr. Chris Kinyua- Businessman- Fundraising Coordination at KCDN

5.      Mrs Purity Gitonga- KACC

6.      Mr. Mark Korir- ACAC

7.      Mr. George Nyongesa- Bunge La Wananchi

8.      Ms Lydia Manyasi- KACC

9.      Apostle Petros Mwita- Religious Groups

10.  Ms Petronila Nafula- Westlands Association

11.  Mr. Nicholas Simani- KACC

12.  Mr. John Kihiu- National Hawkers Association

13.  Ms Mercy Gatobu- Deputy PC Nairobi

14.  Mr. Wildred Mbithi- Director of Operations- PPOs Office Nairobi

15.  Mr. Dan Masetu- Assistant Town Clerk [R&D] City Council of Nairobi

16.  Ms Rebecca Muniu- UNDP

17.  Mr. Timothy Muriuki- Chairman NCBDA

Principals

·         Prof PLO Lumumba- Director- Kenya Anti Corruption Commission

·         Mr. Phillip Kisia- Town Clerk- City Council of Nairobi

·         Mr. Njoroge Ndirangu- Provincial Commissioner- Nairobi Province

·         Mr. Anthony Kibuchi- Provincial Police Officer- Nairobi Province

Let us join hands and help make Kenya safe; free of corruption and clean

Peace and blessings,

Odhiambo T Oketch

PLO, CCNSET makes a courtesy call on PC Nairobi

Prof PLO Lumumba- Director KACC, Prof Jane Onsongo- Deputy Director Preventive Services KACC, Dr John Mutonyi- Deputy Director KACC, Dr Kemoli Akidiva- Principal Officer Education KACC and the CCNSET Team members led by Odhiambo T Oketch today paid a courtesy call on the PC Nairobi Province Mr. Njoroge Ndirangu at his officers.
Prof PLO Lumumba- Director Kenya Anti Corruption Commission addressing the meeting. L-R; Dr Akidiva, Dr Mutonyi and Prof Onsongo of KACC. R- PC Nairobi Mr. Njoroge Ndirangu

The PC was accompanied by his Deputies and all the 9 DCs in Nairobi.

Amongst other things that were discussed are the forthcoming Anti Corruption Walk that will be held in Nairobi on the 22nd October 2010.

The PC said that the Provincial Administration are well placed to join in the war against corruption and that they are inviting the KACC team to come up with a workshop that will re orient the Provincial Administration to play a better role in the fight. He confirmed that they will support the walk and all the activities preceding the walk as a team. He then nominated Ms Mercy Gatobu- Deputy PC in charge of Anti Corruption at his office to join the Organizing Team.
PC Nairobi sharing with Prof PLO Lumumba his Performance Contract where the fight against corruption tops his target requirements. Odhiambo T Oketch and Deputy PC Ms Maercy Gatobu looks on.

Odhiambo T Oketch assured the Director KACC, the PC and all the officers present that at CCNSET, we are staying with the issues and that we will play our part in the mobilization of this process. He assured the team that all is running well towards the big day and all the necessary players are being reached and mobilized. Odhiambo is the Co-Chair to the Organizing Team for the event. The Chair is Prof Jane Onsongo.

Already, approaches have been made to willing partners who have accepted to be part of this process and we will be giving details of the same soon.

Prof Lumumba once again called on all Kenyans to join in the war on graft. He gave us a brief history of how things used to be when he was in school; how essential services were readily available and compared that time to now. He said the time to reclaim Kenya was now. Let us not let corruption eat into our body fabric and become cancerous.

He invited us to all join in the campaign and was full of praise to the CCNSET Team involvement.

Similar sentiments were expressed from Dr Mutunyi, Dr Akidiva, Mr Kinuthia Wamwangi, Mr. Chris Kinyua, Mr. Mark Korir and DC Starehe who talked on behalf of his colleagues.

We at CCNSET are proud of our association with the City Council of Nairobi, Kenya Anti Corruption Commission, The Provincial Administration Nairobi, the Kenya Police Force and all the Strategic Partners that we are working with to promote positive engagement. Besides evaluation processes, there is a lot that the Stakeholders can work in partnership with the government bodies and this is the proactive approach we have taken at CCNSET.

We want to be part of the solution to our problems of 47 years. We do not want to be part of the problem into the 48th year of our independence.

It is our belief that we can achieve a lot as a country if we chose to positively engage with the government institutions. Instead of making noise about the 5% poor score, we applaud the 95% score and then reason out the 5%.

As CCNSET, we have already put in place a monthly clean-up campaign in Nairobi dubbed Clean Up Nairobi Initiative- CUNI and this will be held every 3rd Saturday of the month all across Nairobi. I am happy to report that the Provincial Administration have given there assurance of support and partnership.

We are inviting all Kenyans to join us on this day as we shall be making a big case against corruption as we appreciate and demand service delivery from all government agencies.

We will be posting more on this initiative in due course.

Peace and blessings

Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Nairobi,
PO Box 47890-00100,
Nairobi, Kenya.
Tel; 0724 365 557, 0735 529 126
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Odhiambo is the current chairman to the Stakeholders Evaluation Team on Performance Contract and Rapid Results Initiative at the City Council of Nairobi- CCNSET---

Clean up Nairobi Initiative

The launch of Clean up Nairobi was a big success on 18th September 2010 at 1st Avenue Eastleigh.

The occasion was graced by His Worship the Mayor of Nairobi and he urged all residents to join hands with the City Council of Nairobi in addressing the environmental menace choking Nairobi in the form of garbage disposed of anyhow.
L-R; Cllr Charles Atula- Chairman Environment Department, Ms Petronila Nafula- CCNSET, Mayor Geoffrey Majiwa- Mayor of Nairobi, Odhiambo T Oketch- CCNSET and Eng Christine Ogut- Director Environment Department during the launch of Clean up Nairobi Initiative on 18th September 2010

The launch was also addressed by Odhiambo T Oketch- Chair to CCNSET, Mr. Hassan Gullet- Chairman Eastleigh Business District Association, Eng Christine Ogut- Director of Environment at the City Council of Nairobi, Cllr Charles Atula- Chairman Environment Department at the City Council of Nairobi, area Cllr Robo and the area Chief Christine Dimba.

This was the beginning of our wish to reclaim the glory of Nairobi and this has been well captured in the maxim that we have settled for; Reclaiming the Green City in the Sun.

On behalf of CCNSET, I want to thank the general public who came out all across Nairobi to make this day a success. I also want to extend our appreciation to the following institutions for the support they gave to us to make this day a success;

• Eastleigh Business District Association
• Linora Construction
• Magnate Ventures Ltd
• Soliton Telmec Ltd
• Day to Day Care Ltd

We want to thank His Worship the Mayor for gracing the launch and planting a commemorative tree for the launch at Pumwani Hospital. We also want to thank the Deputy Town Clerk Mr Omar Abdi, City Treasuer Mr Ngugi, Procurement Director Mr. Kohogo, MOH Dr Ayisi, PRO Mr. Marube for joing Eng Ogut in solidarity for this occasion.

It was a show of unity from the Council and we would like to see all Directors shaking Nairobi in the next such cleaning next month.

I must thank my collegues at CCNSET who made time for this great launch; Ms Petronila Nafula, Mr. Steve Waweru, Pst Benerd Mutuku and Mr. John Kihiu. You proved that we can make a team and help move the Council to the next level. I would also want to make special mention of my colleague from the Association of Citizens against Corruption Mr. Mark Korir; thanks for your presence and support.

Thanks to all those who responded to our call by taking part, by supporting us and even just by remaing with us in solidarity at the comfort of your homes.

Let us join the Council in reclaiming the lost glory of Nairobi as we demand for service delivery from them.

Peace and blessings to us all.

Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Nairobi,
PO Box 47890-00100,
Nairobi, Kenya.
Tel; 0724 365 557, 0735 529 126
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Odhiambo is the current chairman to the Stakeholders Evaluation Team on Performance Contract and Rapid Results Initiative at the City Council of Nairobi- CCNSET---

Presentation of the KCDN Strategic Plan to Akiba Uhaki Foundation

Friends of KCDN
KCDN today presented the completed Strategic Plan 2010- 2013 to Akiba Uhaki Foundation. We must thank AUF for all the support and partnership that we have enjoyed in the last 2 years. We must also thank all the Friends of KCDN who have contributed to our events. It is you who made us strong. We want to thank all of you as well.

Mr. Caleb Ben Onyango and Mr. Odhiambo T Oketch- both of KCDN presenting the KCDN DVDs to Mr. Felix Kyalo and Ms Sarah Nkucha both of Akiba Uhaki Foundation

More specifically, we want to thank AUF for supporting the development of our Strategic Plan that we submitted today. It was not easy, coming on the wake of a raid on our offices that left us with nothing and without an office.

We successfully completed the development of our Strategic Plan and Mr. Jasper Morara did us proud. He was able to guide us through our thematic areas and we can say with confidence now that we want to stay with these issues.

We now have some clarity of thought on the 3 Thematic Areas namely;
• Child Support;
• Environmental Management; and
• Peace Building.

1] On the KCDN Child Support Initiative, we are down sizing our support to Orphans and Vulnerable Children to the initial 250 children that we supported in 2008. We want to be more effective with our support to these children to enable us provide educational materials such as stationery, books, uniforms, shoes, socks and such like schooling items as we also follow these children to their houses where we will seek to look at how they do their home works and how and what they eat.
This will call for provisions of such items like paraffin and unga. We will make it such a holistic and interactive approach to child support for which we will invite many players to help see us it through.

2] On the KCDN Environmental Management Initiative, we will enhance the confidence that we have with the schools and the community to focus more sharply on our role as society in environmental campaigns. We believe that it is our responsibility as consumers of services being rendered by the various government arms to enhance environmental awareness and invite each one of us to be responsible in how we handle our waste and dispose of the same.

This will call for positive interventions from key players in the sector as we invite the community to also be pro-active in Environmental Management.

3] The KCDN Peace Caravan will be restructured and will focus more on Peace Building. We will engage the various communities to find strength in our diversity. We will go out and create linkages that will help promote good neighbourliness and respect for each tribe. We will advance the call for respect, tolerance and togetherness.

We must appreciate all the support that AUF and all Friends of KCDN have given us to make sure this thinking is captured in a Strategic Paper, and we know that you will walk with us through the implementation stages.

We want to thank Felix, Sarah and Dorine for receiving our report. I also want to appreciate my colleague and Board Member at KCDN- Mr Caleb Ben Onyango for making time for this important engagement in the life of KCDN.

Lastly, I want to appreciate Mr. Ezra Mbogori, the CEO Akiba Uhaki Foundation for the short discussion we had with him on the way forward for KCDN, CCNSET and Vugu Vugu Mashinani. I know we will stay with the issues in all things we do.

Peace and blessings,

Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Nairobi,
PO Box 47890-00100,
Nairobi, Kenya.
Tel; 0724 365 557, 0735 529 126
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Odhiambo is the current chairman to the Stakeholders Evaluation Team on Performance Contract and Rapid Results Initiative at the City Council of Nairobi- CCNSET---

CCNSET meets Prof PLO Lumumba at Integrity Centre

The CCNSET today paid a courtesy call on the Director of Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission at Integrity Centre.
From L-R; Petronila Nafula, Stephen Waweru, Odhiambo T Oketch, Elijah Agevi, PLO Lumumba, Rashmin Chitnis, Fred Kariuki, John Kihiu, Benerd Mutuku.

We are keen on enjoining the residents of Nairobi in the fight against corruption as we demand for efficient Service Delivery from Government officers.

This is part of an ongoing process that will see major players coming together to stand up against corruption and appreciate the achievers in our demand for Service Delivery. The Government and Council employees are not perfect, but what can we all do to ensure that they meet our expectations?

We have shared with him our experiences and expectations. We are optimistic that despite his team having been in office for only about three weeks now, they are equal to the task ahead and they need the tacit support of all Kenyans to make them achieve positive results.

We want to invite Kenyans to step forward and share with us their concerns. We will make sure that those concerns are addressed by the Town Clerk- City Council of Nairobi, the Provincial Commissioner- Nairobi, the Director- Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission, the Commissioner of Police and any other relevant Government Officer.

It is our duty and we must remain vigilant in the fight against corruption. We must at the same time demand efficient Service Delivery from all Government and Council employees.

Let us unite and step forward for Mother Kenya. Together we shall rein in on the Lords of Impunity and in the process, we shall liberate Kenya from our past.

Peace and blessings as we stay with the issues.

Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Nairobi,
PO Box 47890-00100,
Nairobi, Kenya.
Tel; 0724 365 557, 0735 529 126, 0735 529 126   
Email; komarockswatch@yahoo.com
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Odhiambo is the current chairman to the Stakeholders Evaluation Team on Performance Contract and Rapid Results Initiative at the City Council of Nairobi- CCNSET---

Oto meets the Legendry Frankie Fredericks of Nairobi

Odhiambo T Oketch and the legendary Frankie Fredericks of Namibia when he was in Kenya for the Senior Africa Athletics Championships.

CCNSET meets the Editorial Team at Nation Media Group

The City Council of Nairobi Stakeholders Evaluation Team-CCNSET, today in the morning made a courtesy call on the Editorial Director at the Nation Media Group Mr Joseph Odindo. Mr Odindo was joined by Mr. Julius Maina- the Managing Editor- Saturday Nation and Mr. Nick Wachira- the Managing Editor- The EastAfrican.

L-R; Pst Benedict Mutuku- CCNSET, Mr. Odhiambo T Oketch, Chair CCNSET, Mr. Elijah Agevi- CCNSET, Mr. Joseph Odindo- Editorial Director- NMG and Mr. Julius Maina- Managing Editor- Saturday Nation at the Nation Centre. Mr. Odhiambo is handing over the Stakeholders Evaluation Report to Mr Odindo.

The team from CCNSET included Mr. Elijah Agevi, Pst Benedict Mutuku, Mr. John Kihiu, Mr. Steven Waweru, Mr. Fred Kariuli and was led by Mr. Odhiambo T Oketch. Ms Petronila Nafula joined us later.

Our discussions centred on the role of the residents of Nairobi in evaluating the performance of Government Officers in as much as Service Delivery is concerned. We are appreciative that the City Council of Nairobi has taken the lead role to involve stakeholders in evaluating their performance in line with the reforms that have been put in place by the Government. We are also appreciative that we have many officers who are equal to the task at the CCN.

But it is our responsibility to weed the chaff from the grain. We as the residents of Nairobi must put all Government Officers to task and demand efficient Service Delivery. This is what HE the President and the Rt Hon Prime Minister want of us and of the Government Officers. We must hence, in partnership with the media, play our part.

On behalf of the Stakeholders, I thanked the Nation Media Group for the spirited way in which they have stayed with the reforms agenda. I urged them to stay with the implementation process as they keep Kenyans informed of all that is taking place.

I also took the opportunity to thank Kenyans for voting peacefully for or against the Proposed Constitution. Now that Kenyans have spoken, the Government must move with speed to implement the wish of the people as they listen to the wishes of those who had a divergent opinion. After all, we are all Kenyans.

It was also our wish that the Stakeholders, being the consumers of services being rendered by the Government, must maintain a functional mandate to follow and monitor the implementation stages of the New Constitution are on track even as we demand service delivery from the Government. We can achieve this only through a structured partnership with the media. 

Mr. Odindo on his part was thankful for having met our team. He reiterated the editorial policy of the Nation Media Group of remaining truthful to the unfolding events in our country. He said the NMG will remain on track with the reforms agenda, and they will always keep the country informed at all times.

We took the opportunity to share with him the Report of our Evaluation Exercise at the City Council of Nairobi. It is our wish that we stop complaining about Service Delivery from Government Agencies. Let us engage with them for the good of Nairobi.

Odhiambo T Oketch,
Chairman; CCNSET
Tel; 0724 365 557