Jubilee Party vice chairman and President Uhuru's confidante. [Photo/the-star.co.ke]
Jubilee vice-chairman and President Uhuru Kenyatta’s confidante David Murathe has maintained that appointing Cabinet Secretaries was the prerogative of the President.This is as Murathe downplayed the absence of DP William Ruto during the partial naming of Uhuru's second term cabinet.According to the former Gatanga MP, the public is just reading too much into it.“You understand in 2013 there was a semi-coalition arrangement where we had two parties. This time it’s only one party, one party leader, and one deputy leader. The President is naming a Cabinet as per his vision for his legacy," Murathe tells the Sunday Nation.He adds: "We know the Deputy President is in line to succeed the President, that time he will have a chance to make his Cabinet without the input of the current President and that’s how you have to look at it."Murathe argues that what the President did was 'to name nine members of his Cabinet.In the three new appointments, he replaced the late Major-Gen (rtd) Joseph Nkaissery with Mr. Tobiko (Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko). He also replaced two other Cabinet Secretaries with Mr. John Munyes and Mr. Ukur Yattani.”Murathe, however, insists Kenyatta did not sack anyone and that there is nowhere he indicated that all Cabinet Secretaries will go, the Nation adds."Yesterday’s changes were about the fight against corruption and his four pillars, with the exception of food security,” he said on Saturday.