Former Presidential candidate Cyrus Jirongo. [Photo: kiswahili.tuko.co.ke]
Former presidential candidate in the August 8 general elections Cyrus Jirongo now says he would turn down an appointment to be a Cabinet Secretary in President Uhuru Kenyatta's administration.
Jirongo claims he is busy running his businesses and cannot abandon them for a Cabinet slot.
The former Lugari MP who spoke in Eldoret town on Saturday said he has never been keen on landing a job in the Jubilee administration since the August 8 poll and the subsequent October 26 repeat presidential election.
"I've never been keen on being a Cabinet Secretary. I was to be nominated by the President I wouldn't accept," Jirongo noted.
"Some of us are busy with our businesses and we have a lot on our hands already," he added.
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday announced a partial cabinet that saw six Cabinet secretaries who served in his first term retained with three new faces in former DPP Keriako Tobiko, former Turkana Senator John Munyes and former Marsabit governor Ukur Yattani.
Nobody from Western Kenya was included in the list of the Cabinet Secretaries and it's expected that when President Kenyatta will be unveiling the next batch of the CS's, he will include several nominees from the region.