Reuben Kigame the leader for Jenga Mkenya Movement has today disagreed with the nominated Cabinet Ministers by the Kenya President. He gave the statement as follows;
On behalf of the Jenga Mkenya Movement and all who desire a brand-new Kenya living within the country and the diaspora, we share our disapproval of both the process and list of those announced as being part of Kenya’s new cabinet. Our reasons are as follows:
First, the appointments do not reflect national unity and inclusiveness but crony tribal considerations that reflect the interests of State House and associations with William Ruto rather than professionalism and meritocracy. As Jenga Mkenya, for instance, we would have appointed a professor of health sciences
or research expert in health issues to be CS of Health, a university professor of education to head the education sector, etc. We would have included professionals from across the country and ensured that
professionals living with disability were included.
Secondly, today’s appointments retain several names from the sacked cabinet secretaries who were deemed incompetent for the job, some of them in exactly the same ministries they headed before. This
is not just unacceptable. It is insanity on the part of State House and an insult to the citizens of Kenya who demanded new competent men and women. The people of Kenya did not want a reshuffle. They
wanted the old team completely gone and unconstitutional offices such as that of the Prime Cabinet Secretary scrapped.
Given a chance, Jenga Mkenya Movement would even have sought proposals from
the people of Kenya, including the Generation Z that has led the recent demonstrations. If President Ruto was willing to engage them on X Spaces before, there was nothing too difficult about holding
another X Space to hear suggestions of specific professionals for inclusion in the Cabinet.Thirdly, the partial naming of the cabinet is a clear sign that the Ruto Administration is incompetent and still committed to incompetence and mismanagement of Kenya. It shows that he is incapable of delivering clear, servant leadership of integrity and accountability for the people of Kenya. Ruto’s
appointments reveal his commitment to the political elitism that has reduced Kenya to a den of robbers and looting cartels. It does not inspire faith in tackling tribalism, runaway debt, over taxation,
unemployment, cartels, corruption and impunity.
We therefore call upon all Kenyans who desire a new country to reject today’s cabinet appointments and
get ready for the final push to remove this government from power in line with the Preamble and Article 1 of our Constitution. We want our country back so that we can entrust it to more competent citizens. I
propose national strikes by every sector for at least seven days, a boycott of services and products belonging to corrupt officials, stay homes as well as peaceful demonstrations as provided for in Article 37 of our Constitution. We do not want coalition talks or dialogue with a system that does not listen to its citizens, abducts, tortures and kills them and then brings back cabinet secretaries responsible for all that.
What we want is simple: a government of values, truth, justice, accountability, national unity and listens to its people, fights poverty, ignorance and disease, is not corrupt, lives within its means and creates jobs and livelihoods for its citizens. This is what we will fight for and bequeath to
posterity.