Details have emerged how some of the cabinet secretaries gave Deputy President william Ruto a hard time during yesterday’s cabinet meeting at State House in Nairobi which made the second in command found himself in an unfamiliar territory.
According to report by KTN news television, some of the cabinet secretaries including Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang’i, his counterparts Joe Mucheru and Keriako Tobiko of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Environment reporterdly fired shots to the DP.
The three cabinet secretaries are reporterd to have given DP Ruto a hard time, by firing shots at him over his criticism to the government while on his campaign trail, accusing the government of the poor economic status. The three Cabinet Secretaries are said to have blasted the Deputy President making it hard for him in that meeting since most members were against him.
The May 12 meeting at State House-Nairobi was the first to be held in over a year.
Ever since President Kenyatta struck a truce deal with ODM leader Raila Odinga in March 2018, Ruto has been operating on the periphery of government.
Kenyatta is on the record saying he’s achieved more in his second term in office than he did in his first when Ruto was a key cog in government administration.
Given the acrimonious nature of their fallout, a section of Kenyans expected the DP to give the Thursday Cabinet meeting a wide berth, but he did not.
Pictures shared by the State House on its official Twitter page showed at least 15CVabinet Secretaries and the deputy president in the meeting chaired by the president.
State House said, “several matters of national and international importance will be discussed [at the Cabinet meeting]”.
In the wake of heated public exchanges between the president and his deputy, we sought to find out what could have motivated the DP to attend the convention, yet pulling a no-show could have been an option, given the cold nature of the pair’s relationship.
