Uhuru Convenes Full Cabinet Meeting, Ruto In attendance
Uhuru Convenes Full Cabinet Meeting, Ruto Inattendance Amid Bitter Fallout With the President.
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday convened a first full cabinet meeting after about two years.
Deputy President William Ruto was in attendance amidst a bitter fallout with his boss.
A statement from the State House said issues to do with national and international importance will be discussed during the meeting.
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Uhuru Convenes Full Cabinet Meeting
“His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta is today, at State House, Nairobi, chairing a full Cabinet meeting during which several matters of national and international importance will be discussed,” read the tweet.
DP Ruto has on several occasions claimed that he had not attended cabinet meetings after his duties were allegedly handed to Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i.
He has been conspicuously missing in previous Cabinet meetings.
This is also the first time Uhuru has called for a cabinet meeting in over a year.
However, Ruto on May 1 accused the President of failing to convene a Cabinet meeting for the past one or so.
This came after the President during Labour Day Celebrations at Nyayo stadium accused the DP of absconding.
He called on him to resign to give room for him to appoint someone else.
According to Chapter 9 article 152 of the Constitution, the Cabinet constitutes the President, his deputy, the Attorney General, and at least 14 Cabinet Secretaries.
In the last one year, part of the cabinet has been attending routine meetings every Tuesday, chaired by Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i.
The last time President Kenyatta chaired the meeting was February 18, 2020, whereby they collectively discussed the Vision 2030 project as well as Jubilee’s Big 4 Agenda.
Kenyatta and Ruto have not been seeing eye to eye for years, since their unprecedented fallout, partly triggered by the March 2018 handshake, between the Head of State and the then opposition chief Raila Odinga.
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