President Uhuru Kenyatta declares cabinet positions vacant

Outgoing President Kibaki hands over the Constitution to Mr Uhuru Kenyatta after he was sworn-in as Kenya’s fourth President at the Moi International Sports Centre in Nairobi on April 9th 2013.   NATION MEDIA GROUP

By PETER OBUYA potieno@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted  Wednesday, April 10  2013 

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday declared all cabinet positions vacant saying the life of the grand coalition government had officially come to an end.

A statement from state house Wednesday evening said the swearing-in ceremony and the subsequent assumption of Office of the President on Tuesday had brought down the curtain on the life of the coalition government that was created under the national accord of 2008.

“Similarly, the tenure of the Cabinet serving either as part of the Grand Coalition Government or as part of the Caretaker Government under President Kibaki, which has been in place since the holding of the first elections under the Constitution of Kenya 2010, on 4th March 2013, came to an end at midnight on April 9, 2013,” said the statement.

Mr Kenyatta said cabinet ministers will therefore be deemed to have vacated their positions for “all purposes whatsoever”.
Permanent Secretaries will continue to look after the affairs of ministries until the appointments of new Cabinet Secretaries and Principal Secretaries are effected,” he added.

Prof Sam Ongeri (Foreign Affairs), Charity Ngilu (Water), Njeru Githae (Finance), Amos Kimunya (Transport) and Samuel Pogishio (Information) are among some of the cabinet ministers who were still serving in their respective portfolios.

Mr Kenyatta thanked the former ministers for their “distinguished service” rendered to the people of Kenya
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