Bitter fall-out grips Cabinet as rivalries play out in public

Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri (left) and his Trade counterpart Peter Munya at the Nairobi International ASK show in September. (File, Standard)

Kenya’s top most executive organ, President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Cabinet, is slowly turning into a tower of Babel -- deeply divided and disjointed.

Insiders have painted a picture of a team speaking in different languages, with some  members not seeing eye to eye. Others have publicly proclaimed that they only take instructions from the President only in veiled references to mean they do not recognise Deputy President William Ruto.