It’s my prayer that what the Kenya National Qualifications Authority (KNQA) CEO Dr Alice Kande says comes to pass.
For the longest time it has always been the question of papers, papers and papers rather than work, work and work. I mean beneficial work which should impact us all. And this has been a real impediment to our moving forward as a nation.
Is it any wonder then that in our state departments and public service you can count on your fingers the people who do the work? Otherwise the majority are simply happy-go-lucky. All that they care about is just sit there, doing nothing, but looking for ways to get money, money and more money.
Deals are made left, right and centre. Corruption “Ah, that one. There’s no problem at all as long as we make an extra buck,” these people will say an annoying abandon.
Yet these people are paid based on their spurious certificates. Paid the tax payers’ money and paid for doing nothing actually. Such a sad state of affairs had better be done away with as soon as possible.
So you can see why I am with eager anticipation looking forward to what will happen after the launching of the Recognition of Prior Learning Policy by the Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. And for God’s sake the whole exercise of identifying those to be certified had better be above board. Otherwise we end up with another set of spurious papers that we are trying to get rid of.
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If we got it right for this once, it would save us a lot of pain and anguish. It would then mean that we start hiring and paying the bonafide workers an opposed to ghosts.
Fake officers. That we have such people, those who have been hired and/or promoted on the strength of such papers, is intriguing, to say the least. Do we then have to look anywhere else for the genesis of corruption that has been a real headache for us for so long?
My recommendation. Please, please, Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and any other body concerned with investigation, do your work thoroughly. Do not leave any stone unturned. Such people should surely be punished. They should be sent to Kamiti or some other prison. And all the monies they have been paid, they should be forced to refund.
Let us use this money we recover from these criminals to hire some of our unemployed youths. Hope you agree with me.
By Enock Shirandula
The writer is a retired educationist, a Kabarasi language reviewer of Kabarasi BTL project and author of SO DIFFERENT SHE WAS.
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