President William Ruto has announced significant changes in the senior ranks of the executive, including the nominations of several political allies of former President Uhuru Kenyatta.
This announcement comes just days after a meeting with his predecessor. Ruto has nominated former Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe as Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, former Nakuru Governor Lee Kinyanjui as Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Investments, Trade and Industry, and former Kiambu Governor William Kabogo as Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy.
To facilitate their entry into the Cabinet, Cabinet Secretaries Dr. Andrew Karanja (Agriculture) and Margaret Nyambura Ndung’u (Information, Communication, and Digital Economy) have been redeployed as new envoys to Brazil and Ghana, respectively. Both had been appointed as Cabinet Secretaries during President Ruto’s second reshuffle in August.
In other changes, the head of state reassigned Sports Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen to the powerful Ministry of Interior and National Administration previously held by Kithure Kindiki who has since been appointed as Deputy President.
His counterpart Salim Mvurya was moved from Trade to the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports.
Moreover, President William Ruto has nominated former Sports Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba as the Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON).
Former Lands Cabinet Secretary Dorothy Angote has been nominated as Kenya’s High Commissioner to Zimbabwe.
Head of Public Service Felix Koskei announced the changes, stating, “The Head Of State And Government’s Executive Action re-aligns Ministries, State Departments, and Kenya’s Foreign Service to optimize performance and enhance service delivery as set out in the Administration’s revitalized plan under the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda(BETA),”
In the recent changes to state corporations, the President appointed former Laikipia Governor Nderitu Muriithi as Chairperson of the Kenya Revenue Authority and former Senate Deputy Speaker Kembi Gitura as Chairperson of the Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital.
