Ruto’s Cabinet Secretary of Public Service Moses Kuria has called out former President Uhuru Kenyatta and subsequently revealed what Ruto told them during Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting.
Speaking during an interview on Citizen TV, Moses Kuria highlighted that President Ruto briefed ministers on the discussions he held with Uhuru on Tuesday Cabinet Meeting.
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“He (Ruto) said they delved into particular issues; they were able to breakdown issues to do with the police who are guarding the former president because the former president feels that the number is inadequate.”
According to Kuria, Uhuru was fronting outrageous demands. Among the demands revealed by Kuria, former President Uhuru Kenyatta wants his security officers to be increased from the current fourty to a higher number which he didn’t mention.
“He (Uhuru) felt that the 40 policemen guarding him are not enough and it was agreed that he determines whether it is 50, 60 or 70 or 80. But I understand the threshold for security for retired presidents is enough to justify having over 40 policemen guarding him.”
When the show host Yvonne Okwara asked the Cabinet Secretary on why the President had to form a team to enforce provisions already in the constitution under the Presidential Retirement Benefits Act, Kuria said Uhuru’s demands deviated from the usual protocol.
Some of the issues are not normal policy issues. For example is it normal for me to gazette my home as a government office? We know that is not the right thing to do but the President had to do it.”
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“The President, in his wisdom. said he didn’t want this issue to go out of hand so he asked us (committee) to bend backwards and look at what needs to be done.”