By Gilbert O Kenya
Uhuru’s mini-cabinet reshuffle doesn’t come with the shock effect needed to resuscitate his ailing Jubilee government.
It would appear that, in the purge against corruption, Uhuru it too tall and big on tough talk and empty threats, but extremely short and small in action.
Sacking a clueless CS like Rashid Echesa is nothing to write home about. The man shouldn’t have been a CS in the first place.
A reshuffle where so many corrupt and incompetent CSs are retained makes no sense at all, especially when the country is reeling from unprecedented mega corruption scandals.
The grand theft has made the lives of a majority of Kenyans unbearable.
Most of us expected the president to take advantage of a major reshuffle, to get rid of CS’s who have been adversely mentioned in the shameless racketeering and Wheeler dealing, where billions of taxpayers money got lost.
The most unfortunate thing about the reshuffle, however, is the fact that the president seems to give political considerations more prominence than meritocracy and competence.
Take for instance the ministries of Agriculture and Sports.
We are a country which prides itself as the home of world beaters, when it comes to sports like athletics and rugby, just to name but a few.
We also keep saying that Agriculture is the backbone of our economy. Yet these two ministries are always either given to thieves or grossly incompetent fellas to run them!
Forget about the outgoing semiliterate and ever-militant Rashid Echesa for a second. I suspect that the man spent the last one year trying to understand his job description and his sacking was long overdue. The man literally begged to be sacked.
But then again, does Amina Mohamed have any clue about how the sports ministry is run? The lady has been flip flopping like a headless chicken in the ministry of education! I guess she’ll look more lost in the Ministry of Sports.
The only good thing the president has done today is giving the education docket to Prof Magoha. The man is a bulldozer who is likely to streamline the ailing education sector. But that’s if the fierce cartels will let him work.
Now address the corruption question Mr. President. This mini reshuffle isn’t going to make us forget about the stolen billions.
Arrest the thieves in your cabinet, beginning with your principal assistant. That way we’ll know that you are prepared to walk the tough talk.
Anonymous says
I SUPPORT THE COMMENTS
Anonymous says
Very good observation and comment.
Kenyans think in recent survey that this jommo son cannot fight since already embrace it in agenda..
Anonymous says
Singapore Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, said there were two options for me :
Either I get corrupted and I put my family in the Forbes list of the richest people in the world and leave my people with nothing.
OR
I serve my country, my people and let my country be in the list of the best ten economies in the world.
I chose the second option.
Kenyan politicians Jommo ;Mo1 ;Raira ;Uhunye,mps;DP; senators gavans mcas women reps and top civil servants CSs, PSs etc said, “there were two options for us too, but the second option was already taken by the Singapore Prime Minister”.
Anonymous says
this man is talking handshake handshake will help fight ufisadi yet yeye akio ndani….
there is no efficiency in this gava leave alone accoutability.
Hiring friends and cronies as CSs;PSs ;etc is cause of this problem…..mps shud take over role in coming gavament…
Look
amina; mohammed ex barclay ceo ;kiunjuri; health cs etc shud have shown door…..kukula pesa ya watu pekee.
Likes of ps kamau macharia that campghained in international forums yet could not help Kenyans when in UN NY are just serving mgond* boss….
Anonymous says
If someone got a lucrative tender of ordering containers from china at 12 million a piece, and when others borrow a leaf and follow suit what would be wrong? if the buck stopes at his backyard what does one expect?. How can one remove a speck at another person’s eye when his is infested with a log. All these corruption talk is just hot air. Any reasonable and respectable person should keep his or her mouth shut and do the right thing as action speaketh louder that words. But who will allow one do the right think unless one wants to follow Musando
Anonymous says
if the man is seriuos with his gava……can he tell Tea Farmers why why 1kg of tea cost 300ksh at mombasa auction but farmers are paid 16ksh per kg…..
Anonymous says
wameimba pesa ya farmers hivi….woi woi…
Sukari…mahindi…kahawa..majani ..etc
Uchaguzi uitishwe mapema……kikuyu fungueni macho musindangaywe…..ya wakora wa Jp…
Anonymous says
can the novice leader tell kenyans why dams cannot be built by kenyans engineers……50yrs afyer indepedence.
Kwani tuko nyuma anje…..bure kabisa
Anonymous says
worst thing na uyu mbuyu wa kenya…ati anapata advise kutoka babu hali alikuwa ameoa DR. WSR…..io mpango ya kando will fail…
Anonymous says
ehh kuna mtu uget advise ya babu uyu jatge anafaulu….zi zi zi
Anonymous says
Kenya is controlled by appointing low IQ , poverty stricken and money hungry people to very strategic government positions; surrounding them with smart thieves to handle their day-to-day job operations!
After the looting is complete, the low IQ character is blamed for everything and fired! The low IQ sometimes end up in jail!
Anonymous says
kweli kua na akili ..kuoya kuoya is bad….for nation….and goes on tv to reshhuffle that is not gighting ufisadi or impunity….nug*