The main purpose of this study was to examine the effect of emotional intelligence on employee’s performance on the public sector, in Kobo town. This study was executed on public sector employees, in Kobo town. The study was directed by four research objectives which pursued answers for the effect of emotional intelligence on employee’s performance. The study employed a correlation research design due to its intent to find the relationship between EI and employee’s performance. Public sector population of Kobo town administration is 480 employees. The study adopted stratified simple random sampling to sample 218 respondents who represented the total population of the study area with a 95% confidence level and 5% margin of error. A quantitative approach was used and data were collected through questionnaires and analyzed using SPSS after coding and cleaning to eliminate any inadequacies. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation, and multiple regression analysis. Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used to analyze the data. The findings revealed that the effect of emotional intelligence components (self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management) tend to contribute a strong significance positive effect in determining employee’s performance. Therefore, the study recommended that EI components need to be capitalized if Kobo town public sector is to obtain improved employee’s performance. Hence, there is a need to focus on creating awareness in developing workers to have strong self-awareness, to endeavor themselves to be in control of their emotions and ensure these emotions to effectively managed their work to have strong self-management, organizations should develop training programs and recruitment policies in order to develop the knowledge of social-awareness of their employees, and to encourage teamwork to sharpen relationship-management skills of their employees. .