Seriously, should we wait until each minister in the cabinet ‘steps aside’ to put toend this frail Kenyan government?
It’s more of common knowledge than anyone’s ignorance that the top governing body is short of human resource and should be gravely struggling to eke out any tangible business after another ‘soiled’ governor left, though briefly.
With four ministers- and one, Charity Ngilu, expected to join them soon- having been interdicted for various criminalities and temporarily stripped of their ministerial roles, and another four taking over the abandoned duties on top of theirs, the situation is honestly getting out of hand. In case you forgot, the ministers who stepped aside or suspended are Moses Wetangula (Foreign Affairs), William Ruto (Higher Education) and now Henry Kosgey (Industrilisation).
Considering this, eight ministries are not functioning properly or will soon crumble from lots of duress over the heads of ministers in charge of them. Before you think of its minimal number and therefore its expected inconsequentialities, the affected ministries make fifth of the countries’ top governing body and furthermore, these ministries are very important because they make the very core of government.
Higher Education is not a wishy washy ministry, neither is East African Community. If you think, Foreign Affairs is for jokers like Fisheries, then think twice because it is not. Unfortunately, this ministry connecting Kenya with other nations is being commandeered by a single individual, Prof George Saitoti, alongside his mainstay: the Internal Security docket. One individual calling the shots in such powerful sectors of government? Now way. Give us a break please! Even if they are Professors, Prof Sambili and Prof Saitoti, such double work should be difficult enough for them, especially after their heads were permanently damaged by studying PhD.
The next minister to act for Henry Kosgey should definitely be a ‘Permanent head Damage (PhD)’ holder, by the way who is the other Prof in the cabinet...Prof Ongeri? Maybe, but his past is not clean enough to guarantee him a chance and of course the unforgettable run-ins with Mediator Enigma Engineer Lecturer
Raila Agwambo Odinga.
Who else then? Assistant minister Prof Margaret Kamar could make a good option. But currently she’s in a bar down the available vacancy. A promotion to act as a minister while squarely an assistant somewhere else is tricky though! The same case applies to Prof Ayiecho Olweny, the bespectacled assistant minister for Basic Education.
Because of this inadequacy, it’s time the two principals fetched other personalities. The only way to do this is by dissolving the current cabinet and appointing anyone according to the new constitution. You know they have the prerogative to get anyone so long as they are sane and qualified.
The true call is: dissolve the cabinet now unless you ask any of the local universities to promote the several Doctors in cabinet to provide enough choices. But before then dissolve, no more Professors to act please!
Just by the way...
*Welcome once again to this blog. Hope you had a fabulous holiday and January isn’t turning out to be the real financial monster you have always abhorred.
*Almost forgot to wish you guys a happy New Year. Happy New Year people! May blessings pitch camp on your door and may you be very careful when you open it every morning so that you don’t trample or damage them.
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