Why National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula declined to vet Ruto’s 50 CAS
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National Assembly declined to vet Ruto's 50 CAS who were picked for various Chief Administrative Secretary positions
National Assembly declined to vet Ruto’s 50 CAS who were picked for various Chief Administrative Secretary positions.
The 50 nominees who were chosen as candidates for various Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) positions have now been officially appointed by President William Ruto.
The 50 candidates for the CAS were supposed to go through screening, but according to State House spokesperson Hussein Mohamed, the Speaker of the National Assembly directed the matter back to the Head of State because the August House lacks the legal jurisdiction to vet the candidates.
The Speaker’s memorandum to the President reads as follows: “The obligation to respect, uphold and defend the Constitution enjoins the House to refrain from assuming and discharging a role that it has not been expressly assigned by the Constitution or written law. In that regard, the National Assembly is unable to vet the nominees in the absence of an express constitutional or statutory requirement to do so”.
The Speaker of the National Assembly found that there was no constitutional or statutory basis upon which the August House can vet the nominees.
Meanwhile, President William Ruto on Thursday morning, March 23 presided over the swearing-in of 50 Chief Administrative Secretaries at State House, Nairobi.
The swearing-in ceremony began minutes past 8 am.
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Ruto had nominated the Chief Administrative Secretaries from a list shortlisted by the Public Service Commission (PSC).
The nominations list elicited debate as some critics argued that the positions exceeded those appointed under former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s regime.
In their defence, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua argued that the Kenya Kwanza administration required a bigger team in order to fulfill its mandate.
“This country has a lot of work of reviving the economy and that is why the government needs a big team that will be dispersed across the world to look for the markets of our products,” Gachagua stated during a joint media interview on Friday, March 17, 2023.
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