His Excellency, President Uhuru Kenyatta has nominated his
cabinet and it has seen inclusion of the women so as to achieve the two third
gender rule. It is however important to note that the disabled and the youths
have not been represented in the cabinet. He has however taken care of the
provinces in his cabinet nominations as follows:
Nyanza : 2
Western : 2
Rift Valley :4
Eastern :3
North Eastern:2
Central : 3
Coast : 1
However, the Coast province have not been pleased by the
nomination of Hon Balala to the post of Mining. The Turkana Community has also
expressed their disbelief as the president had promised them a cabinet post but
have not been awarded any.
The message by the Deputy president on 24th that
the cabinet would only have experts except for two politicians who are the
President and him has however not been fulfilled as Charity Ngilu and Najib
Balala has been brought on board.
The nomination of
Francis Kimemia to retain his seat of the head of Civil Service has however
been seen as a pay-back method. The latter who supported the presidency of
Uhuru inspite being a government official has been nominated as a sighn of the
pay back for the great work and support to the Uhuru Presidency.
The president has nominated people to the ministerial posts as follows:
Uhuru to make an intensive visit to Nyanza
Province
The president is set to make his first tour
of the nation since he got into office on 9th April 2013 to Nyanza
Province, to attend the burial of the Knut Secretary and to monitor various
projects in the Province. The president is likely to visit Kisumu county, Homa
Bay county, Siaya county, Migori county and Kissi county. He has however called
on the Cord luminaries to accompany him as he makes his first ever visit as a
president.
The move has however caused several issues
in the western part of Kenya who widely voted for the Cord coalition and Raila
as their presidential candidate and Kalonzo Musyoka as the deputy candidate. The
Cord luminaries have asked the residents, to welcome the President when he makes
his visit to the Province. However, some of the residents have not agreed with
the call of the former Prime Minister and have asked the President to monitor
the projects using Skype.
The president’s move to visit the province
together with the Cord luminaries on one platform is seen as a means of
reconciliation with the Luo community that widely supported the former Prime
minister who also happens to come from that community.
The President made his first visit since getting to office to nyanza province to attend the burial to the late secretary general Mr. Okuta. he was joined by the Former prime minister Raila Odinga and the Nairobi governor Evans Kidero together with the Kisumu Governor Hon. Ranguma.
politics played itself once again as the wife to the late acknowledged Raila as the Excellency President and even when told to denounce that, she refused.
however, the Cord Principle told the residents to forget about the past and move on stating that it is time for nation building. he acknowledged the president and Uhuru too, acknowledged him as ,'The Prime Minister.'
The former premier described the late as a leader
who fought for the brights of the teachers and that he will be missed by many. the president too said tht the late was a leader who really valued others.
This day, 10th June, 2012, marked the end of the road for Kenya’s two powerful cabinet ministers and four others in a grisly plane crash at Ngong hills near Nairobi. The six, were headed to attending a church service and a fundraising at Nhiwa constituency, Homa Bay County. The four, were aboard a Eurocopter AS 350- which was acquired in January from a South African Firm. Witnesses say that they saw the plane nose-dive before crashing and bursting into flames.
The death of the top security personnel’s, sparked several
issues both in the political scene and in the daily Kenyan lives. The Security
minister, Professor George Saitoti, the then member of parliament for Kajiado
constituency, and a long serving Vice President, under President Moy’s
government and a presidential hopeful in the 2013 elections, was a key icon in
Kenyan politics and a key ally to the President, Hon Mwai Kibaki.On the other
side, his deputy Hon Orwa Ojode who was the then member of parliament for Nhiwa
Constituency, was also a key icon in politics and a great ally to the Prime
Minister, Hon. Raila Odinga.
The death of the two was a great shock to the two coalition
leaders (the President and the Prime Minister), the Vice President, ministers,
Members of parliament, and to the nation
as a whole and there was mourning everywhere. The Government then immediately
set up a commission to investigate on the cause of the death of the two
ministers, two pilots and two bodyguards who had accompanied the two leaders.
The president stated
that, the death of the six Kenyans was a devastating loss to our country and
that they had left a legacy of service to the country.
The prime Minister stated that they were saddened by the
demise of the two leaders that had occurred on the fourth anniversary of the
deaths of the late Minister Kipkalya Kones and the late MP for Sotik, Lorna
Laboso, who also perished in a plane crash. Mr. Kones was the then Roads Minister and Ms Laboso was then the assistant Minister for Roads.
Both of them died when their light aircraft crashed in Narok on June 10th,
2008.”In 2006, minister Bodaya Godana, Mirugi Kariuki and Titus Ngoyoni together with the MPs
Guracha Galgallo and Abdi Sasura died when a Russian- made military aircraft
carrying the peace delegation to Marsabit District crashed into a hill due to
bad weather.” Said the Prime Minister
After a period of some time, the commission after interviewing
different people including the planes manufacturers, tower manager, and plane
engineers came up with its findings that they presented to the president but
was never made public till today. The findings stated that the plane crash was
a result of an accident and not an assassination and also due to lack of the
proper service of the plane before it could take off the airport.
However, the media and the nation were not convinced by the
investigations made by the commission headed by Justice Kalpana Rawal that
stated that the death of the six was an accident and the jicho pevu
journalists, Mohammed Ali and John Allan Namu, decided to carry out the
evidence and reveal to Kenyans the truth.
The two journalists travelled to South Africa to get some
information from the Manufacturers but their efforts bore no fruit however they
took some silent photos at the company as they were warned not to take
photographs at that palace. The two also interviewed some top police officials
who were not ready to give the evidences and they even hid one of the police
who was possessing the phone that was owned by Prof. Saitoti. The two
journalists had tracked the phone conversations using the serial number of the
phone and had been given the details from the service provider of who had the
phone of which it happened to be a police officer who had gone to carry the
bodies of the deceased and was just from a police post that was just around the
scene.
The death of the two came a day after the ministers and
their assistants had attended a meeting with the president and the prime
minister at Mombasa and it is reported that the internal security minister, the
late Saitoti, never slept at the room he was designated for and that he gave
out the keys to the bodyguard. However, his deputy too, arrived in a car of one
of his friends and not a state car and that he had a chat upto late in the
night taking drinks with his fellow friends then later got into a club to enjoy
himself. In the morning, the Assistant Minister, left to the airport in a taxi,
leaving his car there at the hotel. He bordered a taxi that was just at the
parking bay and told the driver that he was late since he had to catch a flight
to Nairobi, but what could be the reason for this? Was it that there was a plot
already for him? Who knows?
The assistant minister, the late Orwa Ojode arrived at
Wilson airport and found his boss already waiting for him at the VIP Lounge
ready to leave at any time.
The Jicho Pevu, had revealed that this was a death that was
executed in ten minutes and that the two ministers were to be flown to Ndiwa by
some two senior pilots until at midnight when the flight routine was changed
and the two senior pilots were changed with other two pilots, Nancy Gituanja
and Captain Oyoo. Nancy Gituanja and Captain Oyoo, were in a nearby club,
relaxing when they received a call from the office that the two of them would
be accompanying the minister and his assistant to Ndiwa, a message that never
made the two happy as their friends revealed.
That morning, the six got into the Eurocopter ready to leave
as the faithful were already waiting to receive their guests in 45 minutes from
that time. The two pilots communicated with the tower before leaving the
airports runway and everything was okay and there was a clear conversation
between the two till when the plane left the zones of the airport and both the
captain and tower manager bid the other good day. After leaving the Wilson
Airports runway, the captain began conversing with the Jomo Kenyatta's tower
and they had a successful conversation till they wished each other good day.
But just after seven minutes, the plane that was being
viewed from the police computers seemed to have stopped and what was heard was
just two successive coughs from the cockpit, that is from the pilots, without a
response then the plane was seen to have taken back the same route back to the
airport but then all over sudden, the plane was not visible in the computer meaning
it could have crashed. It was also noted
that the pilot and the co-pilot failed to press a red button that could alert
the airport for an emergency.
A plane from the airport was sent immediately from the
airport to the site where the Eurocopter AS 350 had crashed. on landing at the scene, they found the
Eurocopter, the bodies and belongings had burned to ashes except for just a few
things like part of the money they had
carried to the fundraising and the phones.
Immediately, those who were in the Eurocopter were
recognized and at 10.00 a.m, this was the news from both the national and
international media, “this morning the
Internal security minister left his house at seven and bid his family goodbye
as he got driven to the Wilson airport ready to depart with his assistant
minister to a church service in Ndiwa, and hoping to get back in the evening as
he had promised to his family but this never came to being as both the minister
and his assistant passed away on a fateful accident at Ngong hills near
Nairobi.”
However the findings
of the Jicho pevu that the pilots could have inhaled Carbon monoxide could be
true as the doctors revealed that there was some evidence of the gas although
it was not noted by the commission that is against the law. The doctors
revealed in a conversation that the gas could take about ten minutes when
inhaled before one could die and this could have been used in the assassination
as the plane took three minutes at the airports runway then seven minutes on
the air before it finally crashed, a total of ten minutes. Therefore this could
not actually been an accident but a successful assassination in ten minutes by
top security personnel as revealed by the Jicho Pevu.
