President Uhuru Kenyatta and DP William Ruto at State House, Nairobi. The duo has been advised on how to constitute cabinet and reduce the discontentment currently in the country. [Photo: nairobinews.nation. co.ke]
President Uhuru Kenyatta has been advised on how to go about the composition of the new cabinet that will be all inclusive.
Political analyst Danstan Omari has said that the President should get the people who represents the interests of those who 'feel marginalized by the outcome of 2017 General election' to be part of his cabinet.
"For instance, he can go for some of those elected MPs and Senators who have been elected on Nasa tickets as he did with the late Joseph Nkaissery. And the discontentment in the country will end. And he should not go for the political rejects because they do not represent anybody," Omari told Citizen TV Extra show on Wednesday.
He noted that the current cabinet was inclusive, the problem was only because those cabinet secretaries who are supposed to represent the tribes in opposition have no following in those tribes.
"In former President Daniel Moi's regime, the perception was that the Kikuyu community was not represented in government. But every time there was the late JJ Kamotho in cabinet representing the Kikuyus. But the Kikuyus dismissed him because he had none of their support," added Omari.
"When you put somebody like Rachael Omamo (Defence CS) and tell the Luos they are represented in government, they do not feel it because she has no support among Luos at all," he said.