Story by Wamboi Favor, Maisha TV
Kakamega governor, Wycliffe Oparanya has been named as the performing county chief in a survey where residents rated their leaders.
The study by Infotrak considered the perfomance of county chiefs for 2019 – 2020 period.
Oparanya is serving his second and last term and has indicated that he would be seeking a higher position come 2022.
Oparanya, who is also the council of governors chairman had a mean score of 82.3% followed by kwale’s Salim Mvurya 77.1% and Makueni’s kivutha kibwana 74.4%. Mvurya and Kibwana are also serving their last terms.
Kisumu’s Anyang’ nyong’o was fourth followed by Alfred Mutua for Machakos, John lonyangapuo for west pokot, Jackson mandago for Uasin Gishu, Muthami Njuki for Tharaka Nithi and Josphat Nanok for Turkana. Bomet’s Hillary Barchok closed the top 10 list.
Residents rated the perfomance of their governors in agriculture, health and education sectors.
Kakamega county was ranked the best in agriculture, health and education sectors.
kakamega was also ranked the best performing county with a score of 57.4% followed by kwale 54.8% and makueni 54.7%.
Tana river was ranked the worst perfoming county with 39.5% followed by wajir 41.3% and Isiolo 42.0%.
In agriculture, Kakamega also emerged the best followed by West pokot, Makueni, Bungoma, Uasin Gishu.
Infotrak said the countytrak performance index was designed with the core objective of ascertaining county residents assessment on the performancd of their county governments against set key performance indicators.
The countytrak index tool consisted of 12 functions with 33 key perfomance indicators and 5 approval rating questions
The poll was conducted between october to december 2019 and January 2020. The pilot was conducted between august and september 2019.
The overall sample was 37, 600 and the data was collected through computer assisted telephone interviews.
The report said that a current subscriber base of 33 million and mobile penetration of 82.6 provided an excellent opportunity for the adoption of technology in data collection
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