While most governors opted for direct procurement, Makueni decided to undertake open tenders to promote transparency.
Makueni set aside Ksh45 million for Covid-19 from its own budget and received Ksh119 million from the national government.
The county government also received Ksh58 million from the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) for health workers’ allowances, Ksh30 million from the World Bank and Ksh7.4 million from Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA).
Details of the firms which were given tenders by the county government were also made public unlike other counties.
On a personal scale, the scaling down of operations due to coronavirus pandemic made the governor consider baking.
In a past testimony, he stated that his nine-year-old grandson challenged him to help bake a cake.
“He told me if I had managed to become a governor, then I could bake a cake. I had to rise to the occasion,” Kivutha intimated.