In Summary
  • In his opinion, every leader's individual capacity is known.
  • When the CSs were signing their performance contracts on August 1 at State House, Ruto scolded some who he said have scanty information about the dockets they hold.

Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has opined that some of President William Ruto's Cabinet Secretaries are not fit to lead the dockets they hold.  

Sifuna said the few CSs unfit to hold such offices have been embarrassing the President and that they will continue to do so. 

The Senator spoke on Friday during an interview with Spice FM.  

"My views about the caliber of Cabinet Secretaries are public. I said from the beginning that I didn't believe that most of them had the capacity to hold those offices.

"I did tell Kenyans that they will embarrass them and it is happening on a daily basis," he said. 

Sifuna said the embarrassment from some of the CSs will continue until the day Ruto, who appointed them, and parliament realise that in as much as the appointees helped them get to power and were rewarded, they are not competent enough. 

"Even the President himself stood in State House and said he knows more about what happens in ministries than the ministers themselves who hold the dockets," Sifuna said.

In his opinion, every leader's individual capacity is known.

"I believe especially those of us who are in the public space. If you hear that Sifuna is going to head Kenya's Atomic Energy Development Authority you just tell me to do something else. Just tell me the truth as a friend that I won't be able to handle the docket," he said. 

When the CSs were signing their performance contracts on August 1 at State House, Ruto scolded some who he said have scanty information about the dockets they hold. 

He said some of the CSs and PSs are clueless about what is happening in their respective departments and ministries.

“I call many PSs and ask them what is going on here and they have no clue and this is your department, that is the job that you have; you are not a messenger, you are not a security person, you are not photographer, you are not a watchman,” he said.

“You are the PS or the minister and you don’t have information, how do you run a ministry, a department, or a parastatal if you have no information? That is the highest level of incompetence.”

Ruto said it is the PSs and the CSs who are supposed to advise him, yet he seemed to understand more about what is happening in their dockets than them.

He wondered how they would advise him if they were clueless about the information they were supposed to be having, and challenged them to embrace a culture of reading to familiarise themselves with what was going on. By LINDWE DANFLOW, The Star