- The office is charged with overseeing the performance of Government, Ministries, Departments & Agencies.
- The communication was made by the head of the Public Service Commission, Felix Koskei.
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President William Ruto has appointed former ICT CS Eliud Owalo as the Deputy Chief of Staff, Performance and Delivery Management.
Owalo will be responsible for the effective and efficient implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of priority projects and initiatives of the 5th administration in line with the BETA Plan.
He will oversee the performance of Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies in service delivery.
The communication was made by the head of the Public Service Commission, Felix Koskei.
Owalo was appointed by Ruto in 2022 to serve in the Ministry as CS for Information, Communication, and Digital Economy.
He was fired from office on July 11 when the President dissolved his Cabinet, sending home all CSs save the Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi.
When he exited the ICT ministry, Owalo highlighted several major digital and strategic achievements accomplished during his tenure.
Owalo expressed self-confidence following his appraisal of his time at the helm of the ministry.
"The ministry exit scoreboard," he posted on his X platform.
He listed 14 achievements made under his leadership.
In the post, Owalo claimed that the ministry was ranked as being the least corrupt.
"Under my leadership, Ministry of Information, Communications, and The Digital Economy (MoICDE) was declared by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) as the least corrupt government ministry," he said.
The former minister said that more than 17,668 government services were digitalised within one and a half years against the ministry's target of 5,000 in five years.
He unveiled that he successfully distributed 16,804 digital devices to his established 274 digital hubs and trained 516,505 youth to create job opportunities in every ward in the country.
Overall, he said he successfully created 152,711 digital jobs during his tenure in government.
The ex-ICT CS boasted 1,360 WiFi hotspots established across all 47 counties.
He noted that under his leadership in the docket, there was a local assembly of 1.5 million smart-enabled phones.
"The phones retail from Sh7,500 per unit and are available at Safaricom and Jamii Telkom outlets, with 579,000 units already sold," he said.
Owalo said that he established the Open University of Kenya in October 2023 to facilitate virtual learning and universal access to education, with 3,289 students admitted to the university at Konza Technopolis.
Under his leadership, 10,219 kilometres of fibre-optic cable were rolled out, and the model was restructured to utilise Kenya Power’s (KPLC) electric transmission lines instead of digging underground trenches.
"This should enable us to terminate fibre at each of the 74,000 KPLC transformers and eventually at every metre in the long run," Owalo said.
Owalo disclosed that he commenced the re-engineering of the Postal Corporation of Kenya into an e-commerce and logistics hub.
Additionally, he made public his facilitation of 1,018 audio-visual productions under the KBC studio mashinani programme.
Owalo said he brought on board over 94 ICT providers, innovators, and private partners to co-create innovative solutions through the Konza cloud.