Uhuru snubs Ruto’s cabinet demands

It is not less than once President Uhuru Kenyatta has gone or spoken against his Deputy President Dr William Ruto. The two have on several occasions differed on different issues.

On Friday during his meeting with Mt Kenya leaders at Sagana State Lodge in Nyeri County, President Kenyatta noted that he had for once witnessed the most peaceful campaigns in Kibra constituency, contrary to his deputy who has been attacking ODM leader Raila Odinga over what he claims to be violence witnessed during the just concluded Kibra by elections.

Well, President Kenyatta is again said to be dodging pressure from his deputy to have a major cabinet reshuffle.

It’s understood that Uhuru has been showing reluctance towards the topic even as Ruto camp insists on the need to effect a reshuffling that would also pave way for a new person at the Treasury docket.

The Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection, Ukur Yatani has been the acting CS National Treasury and planning since Henry Rotich was dropped on corruption allegations.

According to a local daily, Ruto has been arguing that Yatani is overburdened by the virtue of holding the two sensitive dockets.

However there are talks that, the DP is ordinarily pushing for his tribesman man to assume the position, which according to him is a reserve for the  Kalenjin, as dictated in the power sharing agreement between him and President Uhuru.

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