Editor's Review

Kuria, who is now a senior advisor at State House, was fired in July alongside his Cabinet colleagues.


Lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi has questioned whether former Public Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria is fit for his current post.

Kuria made a comeback to the government months after he was fired alongside his colleagues in the Cabinet.

President William Ruto appointed him the senior advisor in his Council of Economic Advisors. 

Ahmednasir seemed to suggest the president was unfit to entrust Kuria with a post, yet he fired him on the grounds of incompetency.

He implied Kuria was not the best fit to advise the Cabinet, yet he had failed in his own portfolio previously.

Health CS Deborah Mulongo and senior State House advisor Moses Kuria at Afya House, where the latter convened a meeting with Ministry of Health officials to deliberate on the progress of Universal Health Coverage.

The lawyer said such dynamics indicated failures and blunders in Ruto's government, adding that the president would shoulder the blame should his regime fail.

"Kenya is a funny country. My good friend Moses Kuria was unceremoniously fired by President William Ruto weeks ago for a number of weighty grounds that were enumerated in a press release. Ruto subsequently reconstituted his cabinet. Now we have the very man who was fired and found wanting and unfit to be a cabinet secretary all over the place, dishing advice to those whom President Ruto found competent and fit on how to run their respective ministries. I swear this country is not serious! And the blame squarely falls on the shoulders of President Ruto," he said.

Ruto, while firing his Cabinet, said the decision was informed by Kenyans' evaluation of its performance.

He suggested the team had not lived up to the expectations of the public.

The president therefore discarded that Cabinet to come up with a new team that will aim at assisting him in accelerating and expediting the implementation of the Kenya Kwanza government program, including other radical measures and programs to deal with the burden of debt, raising revenue, job opportunities, eliminating wastage and unnecessary duplication of government agencies and dealing with corruption.

He included figures from the opposition, whom he entrusted with critical dockets, including the National Treasury.