By FELIX OLICK
President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto have kept their cards close to their chest on Cabinet appointments.
Although there have been speculations on possible candidates, the four Cabinet nominees unveiled yesterday were surprise picks.
Before officially unveiling the list, Kenyans were left guessing on when and who would make it to the reduced Cabinet, with the media also being left to speculate.
This was a departure from past regimes, particularly the Grand Coalition Government, where the opposing sides would leak information to the media.
However, the Head of State and his Deputy managed to keep the process secret, an indication that the coalition bringing together TNA and URP was off to a promising start.
Recycle friends
Although the list was not exhaustive, the four names came as a shocker to many Kenyans who had expected that the two leaders would ‘recycle’ their political friends who lost during the polls.
The names were completely new from the ones that have dominated public discourse.
Immediate former Water Minister Charity Ngilu, who is a close ally of the two Jubilee leaders, was speculated could reclaim her previous Health docket.
Since his inauguration in 2002, unity in President Kibaki’s Government remained elusive, with renegades constantly leaking Government secrets.
This was mainly because of the rift that emerged in the National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) shortly after the Government was formed, with Raila Odinga’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) pulling in a different direction.
