{"id":1012,"date":"2020-07-31T11:08:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T11:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countysplash.co.ke\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:08:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T11:08:01","slug":"senator-malala-prof-kutimas-sacking-as-agriculture-minister-by-oparanya-is-in-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonnews.co.ke\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"Senator Malala: Prof Kutima’s sacking as Agriculture minister by Oparanya is in order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Kakamega<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By Wilson Abiri <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala has said that Governor Wycliffe Oparanya did\nthe right thing to drop his deputy Prof Philip Kutima as the County Executive\nCommittee Member (CECM) in charge of Agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOparanya erred in law when he appointed Kutima as CECM in charge of Agriculture but when he dropped him it was in order. The other mistake he did was to transfer Rachel Okumu from Health to Agriculture docket instead of sacking her,\u201d said Malala. <\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Malala said that the dropping of Prof Kutima was long overdue since the law does\nnot allow deputy governors to serve as county ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\nKakamega Senator Cleophas Malala <\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOparanya erred in law when he appointed Kutima as CECM in charge of\nAgriculture but when he dropped him it was in order. The other mistake he did\nwas to transfer Rachel Okumu from Health to Agriculture docket instead of\nsacking her,\u201d said Malala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The senate deputy minority leader also blasted Oparanya for appointing\nretirees back to the Cabinet instead of considering persons living with disabilities\nand the youths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Malala told off Oparanya over the appointment of Phanuel Kulati as county minister for Water, Environment and Natural Resources who served in the previous cabinet during Oparanya\u2019s first term<\/strong><\/em>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Malala told off Oparanya over the appointment of Phanuel Kulati as county minister\nfor Water, Environment and Natural Resources who served in the previous cabinet\nduring Oparanya\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n\n\n\nKakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya <\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The senator said he had a discussion with Oparanya and agreed that ones he\nreshuffles his cabinet in two weeks\u2019 time, he will appoint a youth and a PWD to\nthe cabinet but was shocked to learn that he had not appointed retirees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Governor Oparanya on Thursday sacked three CEC\u2019s including his deputy, Prof\nKutima from the cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The other two who were axed from the cabinet are Joseph Obonyo (Education)\nand Barasa Wangwe (Water) but got a lifeline after being appointed as the\nacting CEO of the Kakamega County\nInvestments and Development Agency and Kakamega County Micro-Finance Corporation\nrespectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\nKakamega Senator Cleophas Malala <\/em><\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Collins Matemba is the new Health boss while George Lutomia who has been in\ncharge of ICT and e-Government was transferred to Education. ICT was merged\nwith Finance and Planning, which was handed over to Dr Beatrice Sabana who was\nin charge of the Public Service and Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Others are Rodah Awinja (Public Service), Geoffrey Omulayi (Roads), Alfred\nMatianyi (Trade and Industrialization), Kassim Were (Sports and Culture) and Robert\nMakhanu (Lands).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kakamega By Wilson Abiri Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala has said that Governor Wycliffe Oparanya did the right thing to drop his deputy Prof Philip Kutima as the County Executive Committee Member (CECM) in charge of Agriculture. \u201cOparanya erred in law when he appointed Kutima as CECM in charge of Agriculture but when he dropped him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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