Kindiki Ranked Best Performing Ruto CS- Infotrak
Kindiki was ranked the best performing at 27 per cent followed by...
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Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has been ranked as the best-performing CS in President William Ruto's cabinet.
This is according to a poll conducted by Infotrak in Kenya and released on Tuesday, February 28 which involved a sample size of 2,149 respondents. It covered the first 100 days of the Kenya Kwanza government and was conducted between February 21-24.
Kindiki was ranked the best performing at 27 per cent followed by his education counterpart, Ezekiel Machogu at 12 per cent. Sports and Culture Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba followed in third at eight per cent.
Infotrak's ranking of best and worst performing CSs. /INFOTRAK
On the other hand, Mining and Blue Economy CS Salim Mvurya was ranked joint-worst performing at 0.2 per cent alongside his Labour counterpart Florence Bore.
Rebecca Miano of the East African Community (EAC) followed at 0.3 per cent and her Environment counterpart Soipan Tuya at 0.4 per cent.
"452 failed to give a score to the ministers, they failed to see any of the 22 as a performing minister so they didn’t give any ranking," Infotrak stated.
Ministry-wise, respondents ranked ICT as the best-performing ministry with a 54 per cent rating, followed by the Roads and Transport ministry (50%) and Defense (49%).
Treasury together with Energy ranked lowest at 35%, followed by Water, Sanitation and Irrigation (40%).
“The survey covered all 47 counties and 8 regions of Kenya. To ensure national representatives, the distribution of the survey sample across the regions was proportionately allocated,” Infotrak added.
Top Performing CSs
- Kithure Kindiki (Interior) - 27%
- Ezekiel Machogu (Education) - 12%
- Ababu Namwamba (Sports, Youth & Culture) - 8%
- Susan Nakhumicha (Health) - 5%
- Mithika Linturi (Agriculture) - 5%
- Alfred Mutua (Foreign Affairs) 4%
- Kipchumba Murkomen (Transport)- 4 per cent
- Moses Kuria (Trade)- 3 per cent
- Eliud Owalo (ICT)- 2 per cent
- Aden Duale (Defence)- 2 per cent
- Peninah Malonza (Tourism) 1 per cent
- Aisha Jumwa (Public Service)- 1 per cent
- Alice Wahome (Water)- 1 per cent
Worst Performing CSs
- Salum Mvurya (Mining & Blue Economy) 0.2%
- Florence Bore (Labour) 0.2%
- Rebecca Miano (EAC) 0.3%
- Rosalinda Soipan Tuiya (Environment) 0.4%
- Njuguna Ndung'u (Treasury) 0.4%
The same survey pointed out that the high cost of living, quality of education, unemployment and agriculture were among the key concerns raised by Kenyans who participated in the survey during President Ruto's term.
72 per cent of the respondents had cited the high cost of living as well as unemployment, while 30 per cent were concerned about unemployment. 25 per cent of the respondents were concerned about the quality of education in the country, with another 19 per cent worried about the state of Agriculture.
A total of 62 per cent believed that Kenya was headed in the wrong direction due to the high cost of living, attributing their claims to key issues of concern facing the nation including high costs of living, high taxes and high unemployment rates.
Others cited poor governance from leaders, bad politics, calamities such as drought and poverty, corruption, poor education quality, poor infrastructure and unequal distribution of jobs.
In the survey which covered all 8 regions in the nation, 63% in the Coast said that the nation is at a nosediving state, 48% in Noth Eastern, 66% in Eastern, 52% in Central, 54% in Rift Valley, 66% in Western, 75% in Nyanza and 62% in Nairobi averaging to a collective 62%.
In distribution by age and gender, 63% of those who participated in the survey were male citizens while 61% were women. Of these, 56% were Kenyans aged 18-26, 27-35 (63%), 36-45 (63%), 46-55 (61%) and over 55 at 61%.
On the other hand, however, 22 per cent of Kenyans believe that the nation is heading in the right direction as there is peace and harmony, others noted that the executive is working and others stated that the economy is growing and the cost of living is affordable.
Other reasons they gave were that the president is God fearing, improved education, taxes are being remitted as compared to the previous regime, their candidate is in power and healthcare is improving. Of these, 23% were male and 20% were female.
