The Kenyan Health ministry has become a revolving door as President William Ruto on Wednesday reassigned Environment Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale to the docket. He becomes the third Cabinet Secretary to hold the Health docket after Susan Nakhumicha and Deborah Baraza, who has been moved to the Environment Ministry.
At the same time, the President has sacked Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi , who he on Tuesday claimed was in incompetent Attorney General. The President has nominated Mbeere North MP Geoffrey Ruku to replace Muturi. The two come from the same Constituency.
Muturi has been engaged in a war of words with his employer and recently said that he has written to the President to excuse him from all Cabinet meetings until the issue of abductions was dealt with. His son, Leslie, had been abducted last year and Muturi claimed that the President has to call the Director of the National Intelligence Service to have him released.
The President has also nominated Hannah the widow of the later Baringo Senator William Cheptumo as the Cabinet Secretary for Gender, Culture, the Arts and Heritage. Cheptumo died on February 16, 2025 and was buried three weeks ago.
