Atwoli blames Treasury, Labour Ministry, EACC, ODPP for challenges facing Kenyans

During a public address on Wednesday, Atwoli lamented the ever-rising challenges Kenyan workers encounter, and yet the institutions mandated with solving their obstacles have remained tight-lipped.

While outlining the key challenges facing Kenyan workers, Atwoli stated that the government ought to come up with an apt solution to lower the high cost of living, soaring debt, high unemployment and taxations, the deeply rooted corruption among other factors crippling the nation's development.

He therefore called out the National Treasury, the Directorate of Debt Management in the National Treasury, Directorate of Budget, Fiscal and Economic Affairs of the National Treasury for failing to tame the ballooning debt, the high cost of living and the depreciating Kenyan shilling.

"Where is the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) when corruption is the order of the day in Kenya? " he posed.

"Where is the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection when many Kenyans remain unemployed and redundancy becomes the order of the day in Kenya?" 

He opined that the aforesaid institutions and other public institutions should be held accountable if they sleep on their job "and those not able to deliver on their mandates disbanded."

Atwoli went on to recommend a five-point strategy which the commission believes will help recover the nation's dipping economy.

The COTU boss urged the government to embrace effective and efficient stakeholder engagements in the entire development process to promote value creation and innovation.

"In fact, stakeholder engagement is an effective governance tool as it promotes trust and control by the people as decisions come from them," he said.

He also recommended the building, restoring and sustaining a strong investor confidence strategy which he says will largely attract more investors to the nation who will ultimately boost the economic overturn of every sector.

Atwoli also urged the government to build and support strong effective and inclusive institutions to help the nation realise its Vision 2030.

He also emphasized the need to embrace research in the entire development process which he says should involve both public and private institutions to monitor and evaluate the sustainable avenues that will guarantee longevity of a stable economy.

The firebrand lastly advised the government to embrace zero tolerance to corruption which he argues has plagued the nation for the last 6 decades.