President William Ruto has announced today, Wednesday, 26 March, a fresh series of cabinet adjustments that have seen Cabinet Secretary (CS) Justin Muturi go home for good.
Muturi, the now former Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Public Service, Performance and Delivery Management, was the only one sent away, while other CSs were reshuffled to various ministries in what the President has said is intended to steer Kenya’s socioeconomic transformation in line with the Kenya Kwanza manifesto.
“His Excellency the President has today instituted further changes to the senior ranks of the Executive within Cabinet. By the Presidential action, the Cabinet is set to achieve its constitutional full strength,” a statement from the State House reads.
Following Muturi’s firing, Geoffrey Ruku, the Member of Parliament for Mbeere North Constituency, has been nominated to take over his position with immediate effect but pending parliamentary approval.
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In the reshuffle, Aden Duale, previously serving as the CS for the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, will now head the Ministry of Health. In turn, Deborah Barasa, who held the Health docket, will assume responsibilities as the CS for Environment and Forestry.
Aside from Ruku, President Ruto’s cabinet is also set to have a fresh face—Hanna Wendot, the widow of the late Baringo Senator William Cheptumo, who has been nominated to head the Ministry of Gender, Culture, the Arts, and Heritage, also subject to parliamentary scrutiny.
“The nominees are expected to bring to Cabinet not only the knowledge and experience acquired throughout their illustrious careers but, above all, their wisdom accumulated from their inspiring and diverse life journeys,” the President said in a statement.
For many Kenyans, Muturi’s dismissal did not come as a surprise. His recent disagreements with the President, particularly over the abductions linked to the youth-led antigovernment protests in July last year, had caused noticeable friction.
He had been calling on President Ruto’s government to stop abductions and do just exactly what brought them to office. This is one statement that seems to sit not right with many political leaders of Kenya.
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