Uhuru orders graft linked ministers and parastatal heads to leave

President Uhuru Kenyatta has suspended cabinet secretaries named in a report by Ethics and Ant-Corruption Commission.

State House spokesperson Manoah Esipisu said the principal secretaries and other State officers named in the EACC list have also been asked to step aside. Mr Esipisu said the President has instructed the board of parastatals whose heads appear in the dossier to appoint other chief executives to act pending the investigations.

The suspended cabinet secretaries are are Felix Kosgey (Agriculture, who had earlier today stepped down), Davis Chirchir (Energy), Michael Kamau (Transport) and Kazungu Kambi (Labour). The president appointed Industrialisation CS Adan Mohammed to take over the Agriculture docket.