Jubilee MPs petition President Uhuru Kenyatta to transfer Education CS Kaimenyi

BOMET, KENYA: Members of Parliament are not backing down in their quest to have Education Cabinet Secretary Prof Jacob Kaimenyi removed over alleged misconduct and incompetence.

Jubilee legislators have now initiated another process of removing Prof Kaimenyi as the CS through a petition to President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Bomet Women Representative Cecilia Ngetich, MPs Bernard Bett (Bomet East), Paul Bii (Chepalungu) and Sammy Koech (Konoin) on Monday said it was time the President intervened and transferred Kaimenyi to a different docket in the Government after he survived a vote of no confidence in parliament last week.

Bett revealed that as Jubilee MPs they have written a petition to the President through the National Assembly Leader of Majority Aden Duale demanding an immediate transfer of Kaimenyi.

"We are not mincing words in our demand that the Education Cabinet Secretary should be shown the door by all means because of his incompetence and gross misconduct," Bett said.

The Bomet East MP asked Duale to forward the petition signed by nearly all the Jubilee MPs urgently to the President for action.

"I want to ask our leader of majority to urgently present the petition to the President. Outcry from nearly all sectors on the conduct of the CS does not allow any delay in transferring him even to another docket," said Bett.

Ngetich who sits in the education committee said the removal of Kaimenyi as an education Cabinet sectary was long overdue.

She said the transfer would restore calm adding that President Kenyatta should act on the petition from members of parliament as a matter of urgency.