NAIROBI, Kenya March 22 – President William Ruto has appointed Cabinet Administrative Secretaries after the National Assembly failed to vet them.
State House Spokesperson Hussein Mohammed said the appointments were made after the Speaker of the National Assembly referred back the transmittal of the nominees to the appointing authority.
In sending back the nominees, Speaker Moses Wetangula noted that “the National Assembly is unable to vet the nominees in the absence of an express constitutional or statutory requirement to do so.”
As a consequence of the referral by the Speaker, Hussein said, “the Head of State and Government has today caused the appointment of the nominees to various ministries as earlier notified.”
They are set to take oath on Thursday.
They include Kenya Kwanza’s digital strategist Dennis Itumbi, former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero, and ex- Nominated Senator Millicent Omanga are among fifty Chief Administrative Secretaries (CAS) who were all appointed following a recommendation by the Public Service Commission (PSC).
President Ruto nominated Itumbi to the Ministry of Information Communications and The Digital Economy, Kidero (Ministry of Investments, Trade and Industry) while Omanga was nominated to the Interior ministry alongside former Narok governor Samuel Tunai and former North Eastern Regional Co-ordinator Amb Mohamud Ali Saleh.
Former Laikipia Woman Representative Catherine Waruguru, former Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Secretary-General Wilson Sossion and former Starehe Member of Parliament t Charles Njagua Kanyi were nominated into the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Heritage and Ministry of Youth Affairs, Arts and Sports respectively.
Alfred Agoi was nominated Ministry of Defence while Kirui Limo and Beatrice Nkatha went to the National treasury.
