Speaker Justin Muturi.[Photo/citizen]
National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi is yet to receive names of three Cabinet nominees to begin the vetting process.
Parliament’s Standing Orders state that once the Speaker receives the relevant communication from the Presidency, he should forward the Cabinet nominees to the Committee of Appointments and those of nominee ambassadors to the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations for vetting.
“They have not arrived. That is the simple answer.”
“Remember we had passed a Motion before we went on recess, that when the news comes during the long recess, they would automatically go to the departmental committee and to the Committee on Appointments. So if they had arrived, already the process would be nearing almost completion,” the House Speaker told journalists at his Parliament Buildings Office.
The House rules give MPs 14 days conduct approval hearings on the nominees and then the House is to give a go ahead or reject a report on their capability to hold the dockets.
President Uhuru Kenyatta on January 8 retained six Cabinet Secretaries and nominated new ones who are Keriako Tobiko, Ukur Yattani, John Munyes and outgoing State House Comptroller Lawrence Lenayapa as the Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
President Kenyatta is to complete the list of nominees who will complete his Cabinet in coming days.