The nomination comes weeks after the President sacked his entire cabinet save from Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi.
But as was expected, Ruto opted to pick these politicians saying they had played a key role in helping him and the Kenya Kwanza camp win the presidency.
William Ruto had fired all Cabinet Secretaries and Attorney General Justin Muturi in response to youth-led anti-government protests.
Ruto mooted the idea of the broad-based government when he dissolved the Cabinet, noting that the deliberations would assist him in accelerating and expediting the necessary, urgent and irreversible, implementation of radical programmes to deal with the burden of debt, raising domestic resources and expanding job opportunities, among other issues.
On Tuesday last week, the President announced plans for a “broad-based political arrangement” lending credence he could be considering co-opting the opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) of Raila Odinga in his besieged Kenya Kwanza administration.
In the meantime, the President said, government operations would continue under the guidance of Principal Secretaries and other relevant officials.
Top on the list of rewards is the vocal Garissa Township MP Aden Duale who has been nominated as the Defence Cabinet Secretary.
Pulsenews.co.ke has learnt that the President is toying with the possibility of a ‘government of national unity’ with opposition figures in his administration as part of his way out of the current political crisis triggered by the protesting youths, who have cornered him and demanded major re-organisation of his government.
Here is the list of the newly nominated CSs
Kithure Kindiki - Interior
Deborah Mulongo Baraza - Health
Alice Wahome - Lands
Julius Ogamba -Education
Andrew Muhia Karanja - Agriculture
Aden Duale - Defence
Soipan Tuya - Environment
Davis Chirchir -Roads
Margaret Nyambura - ICT
Eric Murithi Muga - Water
Rebecca Miano -Attorney General
Ruto said he is confident that his team will play a critical role in the implementation of the Kenya Kwanza plan in the next three years.
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