[President Uhuru Kenyatta and his early Cabinet. Photo/Courtesy]
Former Council of Governors (CoG) chairman has called on the relevant authorities, to consider reviewing the 2010 Constitution.
Isaac Rutto proposes that the president should be the one appointing Cabinet Secretaries, from the list of elected Members of Parliament (MP), as it was before.
The old Constitution allowed for MPs to be appointed cabinet ministers, serving in various government Ministries. However, the new Constitution changed, giving the president powers to appoint Cabinet Secretaries, from other institutions, and not MPs.
According to the Bomet governor MPs are usually vibrant, and understand the country's troubles so well, and would make good leaders in their respectvie dockets as Cabinet Secretaries.
Citing the current Jubilee government headed by president Uhuru Kenyatta, Rutto said the Cabinet Secretaries do not understand troubles facing Kenyans, and had failed them.
Speaking during a meeting with over 1,500 Chama Cha Mashinani (CCM) aspirants from various counties, the CCM party leader faulted the government, saying it needed leaders who would not steal from citizens.
"We need Cabinet Secretaries who value citizens than their wealth. Leaders should not steal from poor mwananchi,'' Rutto said, Friday.