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New Cabinet: Uhuru to Finance, Kimunya returns |
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Friday, 23 January 2009 |
An announcement from State House Nairobi says that President Kibaki has appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Gatundu South MP Uhuru Kenyatta Minister for Finance.
Uhuru is replaced at the Ministry of Trade and Industry by former Finance Minister and Kipipiri MP Amos
Kimunya.Kimunya who was exonerated of wrongdoing in the Grand Regency Hotel saga by the Cockar Commission returns to the important Trade and Industry docket, at a time when Kenya needs to revise its trade arrangements to reflect the realities of the global financial crisis.
Former State House Comptroller and Bureti MP Franklin Bett enters the Cabinet at the Ministry of Roads and Public Works which was made vacant following the death of Kipkalya Kones in a plane crash in the South Rift. Kones widow, has been appointed Assistant Minister for Home Affairs in the Office of the Vice President. The two appointments may go some way to assuaging the Kipsigis vote bloc, which has been lamenting its lack of adequate representation at the highest level of national politics.
Meanwhile, the Industrial Court has declared the teacher's strike illegal.
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