According to the free online dictionary collective responsibility is a concept or doctrine according to which individuals are to be held responsible for other people's actions by tolerating, ignoring, or harbouring them, without actively collaborating in these actions. it is based on convention,or usage rather than by law, and requires that once a decision has been taken up by a group, all members are bound by it and must support it.
In the United Kingdom, the doctrine applies to all members of the government, from members of the cabinet down to Parliamentary Private Secretaries.Its inner workings are set out in the Ministerial Code.
Collective responsibility is when people are held responsible for other people's actions. This is because they tolerated or ignored the behaviours but did not participate in them, In this case everyone takes the blame for one person's actions.
If you asked me to show you how this is being observed in our current UhuRuto Governance I will have problems identifying individuals who are adhering. But ask for the flip side of it and I will parade a whole list of it that you'll be amazed...and actually it doesn't require a lot of research. Its not new though as previous Governments have been setting precedents for continuity of the super-blame game that always leaves the Kenyan Guessing who is really Responsible.
Its intriguing how these pseudo-leaders find the guts of proudly disowning their very own undoings...analogically speaking I think government officials ought to treat their work as a family is run... You don't blame your kindergarten daughter for leaving the lights on overnight and it is you who left her watching cartoons while you dozed off! these would-be-servant-leaders of ours boldly call a press conference to express how they wont resign; justifying with statements like; "I was not aware", " It is my juniors who did it", " that's not my work" .....
how awesome would it be if guys Like Kimunya(Embassy sale scandal), Prof Kaimenyi (Laptop tendering), Kiraitu(Triton), Uhuru (Computer error!), Shollei ( Judiciary funds), and the like would own up to their own in-competencies in running their offices and stepped aside alongside their junious? this would pave way for new up-task Kenyans to take over such positions.
but nope; they wouldn't... and if they were where would our other friend Tribalism be?
Somebody needs to enforce this, if even such a law exists in this country... to ensure that these gentlemen and ladies in those high offices do not earn these fat salaries lying down and running scams as their juniours work their asses off.and also to discourage the juniours from behaving like programmed zombies who cannot raise alarm when they are being exploited or when their bosses get roguish.
I even think that once you have been suspected of a wrongdoing involving public resources you shouldn't be eligible for appointment to a public office any more, whether guilty or not. I mean why should we? There thousands of Kenyans with great credentials who can fill up your position... I don't see why we should even have a principal secretary(formerly PS) serving three governments in three different ministries.... this explains the continued massive knowledge loss we experiencing as educated Kenyans seek jobs abroad.
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