The government has effected a major reshuffle within ministries and State departments affecting a total of 135 senior government officials.
Some of the most affected ministries and State departments include the Executive Office of the President, Office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury and the Ministry of Defence.
The State Departments Internal Security and National Administration; East African Community Affairs; Investments Promotion and Public Works.
Also massively affected include the departments of ICT and Digital Economy; Co-operatives; Higher Education and Research; Roads; Agriculture; Devolution; Transport; Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Development; Forestry; Lands and Physical Planning; Shipping and Maritime Affairs; Sports; Basic Education; Gender and Affirmative Action; Social Protection and Senior Citizen Affairs; and Labour and Skills Development among others.
Eight senior officials from the State Department of Internal Security have been transferred to other government departments. However, only one official was transferred there.
Transferred from the department include Joseph Kanyiri who was moved to the Executive Office of the President as the Secretary in charge of Administration, National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) and Amos Mariba who now becomes the Secretary Administration at State House.
Staff movement
Also moved from the department is Isaac Masinde who becomes the Secretary Administration at the Ministry of Defence), Patrick Mukiria who was moved to the department of Transport as the Director in charge of Administration and Tobiko Nayioma who was transferred to the Department of Wildlife where he becomes the Director ion charge of Administration.
Others transferred from Internal Security include James Ntabo who has been moved to State Department for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises as Director Administration; Jude Wasonga as Senior Deputy Secretary, Livestock; and Nahashon Thiongo as the Director of Human Resource Management at the OPCS.
Also transferred is Jane Mogire from the State Department of Medical Services has been moved to Internal Security as the Deputy Director, Human Resource management.
Director of communication
Former Nation Media Group journalist, Andrew Teyie has been named the Director of Communication at the Office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary.
In a letter dated March 14, the Principal Secretary for State Department for Public Service Amos Gathecha directed the concerned ministries to release the affected officials immediately but not later than March 28.
Those transferred include former Administration Police officer Fred Mwei who has been moved from Devolution and appointed Director of Administration for Basic Education.
Five senior officials from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) have also been transferred to the Executive Office of the President.
Victor Vinya Mule, the outgoing acting deputy director in the Department of County Affairs and Regulatory Services at the ODPP and Grace Murungi, a Senior Assistant DPP and the head of Economic, International and Emerging Crimes Department have been named Directors of State Corporations Advisory Committee.
Mule, an Advocate of the High Court joined the State Law Office as a State Counsel in 2008 and later transferred to the ODPP under the New Constitution of Kenya 2010, where he has served for eleven years. Mule and Murungi will be deputized by former ODPP Chief of Staff Lilian Akinyi Obuo.
Diana Christine Nanjala, also a Senior Assistant DPP is the new Deputy Director at the Inspectorate of State Corporations while Ebei Reuben Ekai has been named the deputy director in charge of Supply Chain Management. A number of officials were however retained.
Boniface Ngigi, Naomi Matheri, Paul Kiagu and Samuel Wambugu have both been retained as the Director Planning at the National Treasury.
Also retained is Isaiah Byegon as the Director Planning with the State Department for Gender and Affirmative Action; Paul Wafula (NYS), Lawrence Muthamia (Forestry), Charles Ombuki Director Planning, Wildlife), and Isaac Muthoni (Water Trust Fund).
Late January this year, the government also made a major reshuffle affecting support staff within different ministries.
The Ministry of Public Service said in a letter by Gathecha that an earlier request had been for the reshuffle. By Zadock Angira, People Daily