Former Public Service Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria has fired back at former Law Society of Kenya President Nelson Havi and lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi for claiming that dismissed Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) are unfit for any state office after being fired by President William Ruto.
Havi, responding to a gazettement on the dismissal of Ruto’s 21 CSs, stated on X that the dismissal “means that they are ineligible to hold any public office forever: appointive or elective.” He added that the ousted CSs fall in the same category as impeached governors or judges deemed unsuitable to serve.
Top lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi supported Havi’s sentiments, asserting that Ruto’s dismissal of the CSs met the required constitutional threshold, rendering them ineligible for reappointment. Ahmednasir noted, “President Ruto can’t reappoint any member of the cabinet because their dismissal under the constitution implied a grave omission or commission.”
In a swift rebuttal, Kuria argued that the lawyers’ opinions were ill-informed. He stated, “As lawyers of (dis)repute, you need to read whatever provisions against the tenets of fair administrative action. If your ‘scholarly’ arguments are to hold water, the affected persons then have to be taken through a disciplinary process or a court martial. Not a class action.”
Kuria criticized the lawyers’ stance, comparing it to “McCarthyism,” and insisted it must stop.
President Ruto dismissed the Attorney General and all 21 Cabinet Secretaries, except Prime Cabinet CS Musalia Mudavadi, on July 11.
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