LIVE TEXT: Uhuru postpones naming of Cabinet nominees

President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto on April 23, 2013 when they named the first four Cabinet Secretary nominees at State House, Nairobi. PHOTO / BILLY MUTAI

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Remaining ministries:

  • Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government
  • Ministry of Devolution and Planning
  • Ministry of Defence
  • Ministry of Education which will have the Department of Education and Department of Science and Technology
  • Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure which will have the Department of Transport Services and the Department of Infrastructure
  • Ministry of Environment
  • Ministry of Water and Natural Resource,
  • Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development
  • Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services
  • Ministry of Energy and Petroleum Ministry
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries under which are the Department of Agriculture, Department of Livestock and Department of Fisheries
  • Ministry of Industrialization and Enterprise Development
  • Ministry of East African Affairs, Commerce and Tourism which has the Department of Commerce and Department of Tourism
  • Ministry in Mining

7:32 President Kenyatta is scheduled to fly out for his first official engagement outside Kenya on Thursday morning where he will join other East African Community heads of State at the regional summit in Arusha Tanzania.

7:29 William Ruto: Their (nominees) business is to deliver on the agenda we have for Kenya. In the cabinet there will only be two politicians The President and The Deputy President. The rest are professionals. Stop looking for who is TNA who is URP nominee amongst the cabinet secretaries nominees. We have not asked them which party they voted for because it is not relevant.

7:28 Uhuru Kenyatta: Power sharing has been the last thing on our minds. We have been driven primarily on abilities to deliver to Kenyans. We have no issue at all on power sharing.

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7:27 Uhuru Kenyatta: Managers and individuals capable of implementing the agenda that we have, The individuals we have chosen have capacity and can deliver. We are choosing on individuals with management capacity to work with individuals in respective sector

7:22 William Ruto: There were challenges we could not avoid today. We had a visitor from neighbouring country and the talks took most of our time. The work that we started since Tuesday of selecting Cabinet Secretary nominees is still ongoing.

7:20 Allow us more time, we will work through the night if necessary. Tomorrow 9am morning latest we will have a comprehensive list of those who will oversee oversee Jubilee's agenda.

7:19pm Uhuru Kenyatta: Consultation took much longer than was expected and were not able to begin the work we were undertaking until quite late. We will continue a quite longer because we still have people to consult with.

The President had on Tuesday named four out of the 18 members of his Cabinet. (READ: President Uhuru names four Cabinet members)

The nominees were Dr. Fred Okengo Matiang'i for the position of Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT), Mr. Henry K. Rotich as Cabinet Secretary in the National Treasury Ministry, James Wainaina Macharia for the position of Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Amb. Amina Mohamed for the position of Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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