Several activists are calling for the sacking of three public officers who are blocking reform - Police Chief Hussein Ali Chief Justice Evan Gicheru and Head of Public Service Francis Muthaura...
Yet the biggest problem in Odinga's office doesn't even work there: the head of the civil service and Secretary to the Cabinet in the President's office Francis Muthaura has consistently obstructed Odinga's work over the past year...
Vol 50 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
The ODM claims that almost all power is channelled through the Head of the Civil Service and Secretary to the Cabinet Francis Muthaura...
The ODM says it was not consulted about the document defining the roles of the total 90-plus ministers and assistant ministers; it may have had some input from Odinga and his chief civil servant Permanent Secretary Mohamed Isahakia but it was finalised by the Secretary to the Cabinet Francis Muthaura...
He ceded much ground in the cabinet negotiations and appears to have dropped his insistence on a redistribution of civil service jobs staying silent when Kibaki retained his ageing allies including Francis Muthaura 61 and past retirement...
The conciliatory mood ended abruptly the next day when Civil Service chief Francis Muthaura announced at a press conference that nothing had changed in the structure of executive authority in Kenya...
Civil service Head Francis Muthaura's defence of Kibaki's reinstatement of Education Minister George Saitoti and Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi - publicly accused but never charged with corruption - failed to convince the sceptics...
It demands the resignation of Vice-President Moody Awori and the head of the civil service Francis Muthaura...
He is now being urged to sack Vice-President Moody Awori and Civil Service Head Francis Muthaura both of whom have been repeatedly accused of trying to block Githongo's corruption investigations and have denied it...
The Cabinet Secretary Francis Muthaura wrote a terse letter to Odinga and Environment Minister Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka warning them they could be sacked if they persisted with their No campaign...
