On Wednesday, President William Ruto announced his second round of Cabinet nominees, ignoring several of the secretaries he had fired.
The president omitted Peninah Malonza, who oversaw the East African Community docket, and Moses Kuria, who worked as the CS for Public Service.
A few minutes after the president announced the list of nominees, Kuria took to his X account with an interesting tweet.
“On 14th January 2020 my friend Festus Mwangi Kiunjuri was fired from Cabinet. On that day I took him out for lunch. Today my brother has returned that favour. It was a good lunch. Asante Mwangi,” he said.
In 2020, Mwangi Kiunjuri hwas sacked by the then President Uhuru Kenyatta as he reshuffled his cabinet.
Kiunjuri was in charge of the Agriculture docket.
List of other former CSs who have missed out in Ruto’s cabinet
Others not named in the second batch include Aisha Jumwa who was in charge of the Gender and Culture docket and outgoing National Treasury CS Njuguna Ndung’u.
Zacharia Njeru who served as Water and Irrigation CS was left out and so were Mithika Linturi (Agriculture and Livestock), Ezekiel Machogu(Education), Ababu Namwamba(Sports) and Simon Chelugui(Micro and Small Enterprises).
Florance Bore who was until her dismissal the CS for Labour and Social Protection was left out as well as Eliud Owalo(ICT) and Susan Nakhumicha(Health).
The President announced the new nominations at the State House, Nairobi
While announcing on Wednesday, Ruto said the new names will join his government to steward “our transformative agenda that is already in place”.
“I commend the leadership of diverse organisations, Parliament and outside parliament and political parties,” Ruto said.
