President Uhuru Kenyatta. [Photo: PSCU]
President Uhuru Kenyatta has been urged not to reward political loyalty when filling the remaining slots in his Cabinet.
The President has instead been asked to focus on ensuring competent individuals are picked to take up the positions.
Uasin Gishu Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK) chairman Sheikh Abubakar Bini has further called for considerations of individuals from regions that have not being reflected in the first batch of the Cabinet named last Friday.
Speaking in Eldoret town, Sheikh Bini said the President should use naming of his Cabinet as an opportunity to form an all-inclusive government.
"There have been cheers and complains over the list of Cabinet Sectaries released so far with the beneficiaries celebrating and those left out crying and with some more slots remaining, the President needs to balance between the need to have an inclusive Cabinet and also professionalism," Bini noted.
"It's time he focused on people who can deliver quality services to the people and not rewarding political cronies who will end up spreading hate and ethnic divisions," he added.
The President has already named nine Cabinet Secretaries and is expected to unveil his full Cabinet as soon as possible so as to allow his second and last term in office to take off.