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Tuesday, August 29, 2023 –Cabinet Secretary for Trade and industrialization Moses Kuria was forced to board a boda boda to arrive early at President William Ruto’s Cabinet meeting.
In a video shared on socials, the Trade CS can be seen boarding a boda boda in Kakamega Town so that he can be rode to the meeting before the president arrived.
In the brief video clip seen by this desk, he confesses that President Ruto had turned into a strict leader and very harsh to juniors.
“Aiii na President Ruto amekuwa mkali bwana,” loosely translated to “The President had turned into a very harsh person today,” Kuria said.
The boda operator identified as Benerd Etale, however, told him that the president was harsh so that Kenyans who elected him can get proper services.
Asked about his car, aides and security detail, Mr. Kuria just said the team was still asleep and, therefore, he could not wait for them to wake up.
Early this month, during a Cabinet meeting held in Nairobi, Kuria and his Interior counterpart, Kithure Kindiki, faced the wrath of the president when they arrived late in his meeting.
The two, together with a few PSs, were locked out of an important government meeting after arriving when both the president and his deputy Rigathi Gachgua were sited.
According to an official programme released by Statehouse Press Secretary Emmanuel Talam, the event was to begin at exactly 8AM.
This meant that all the CSs and their Principal Secretaries PSs were to be sited early enough before the official time when the event would kick off.
And when the president and his deputy stood upto address the meeting, they first lectured the Cabinet by warning them that arriving late will nolonger be tolerated.
”I saw some were late, and I looked at the President in the eye and realised that there would be trouble for them.
”You can’t arrive at an event when the President is already seated. Why would you come late? How do you explain that? Who did you go to see and yet today was the most important day for you to sign contracts?” he posed.
Dr. Ruto went further to ask for a written explanation from each.
