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Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Who Is Mutahi Kagwe? Will He Join The Cabinet?

Former newspaper marketing executive turned-entrepreneur, Mutahi Kagwe has been very busy over the last fortnight running errands for President Kibaki. Mostly sensitive negotiation tasks. Kagwe is the NAK MP for Mukurweini (neighboring President’s Kibaki Othaya constituency).

Look out for that name. Chances are high it will be one of the new ones in the new cabinet (most probably to replace Chris Murungaru).

Kagwe’s most interesting meeting was with opposition leader Uhuru Kenyatta at a Nairobi hotel. The meeting lasted almost 5 hours and ended shortly before midnight on Monday. It is unlikely that Kagwe was asking Kenyatta to join the Kibaki cabinet. Most probably the Kibaki team are interested in one of the KANU MPs from Rift Valley joining the cabinet. Most likely somebody like William Ruto.

The next few days should be fascinating…

Kibaki Cabinet Announcement Delayed As MP Rejects Cabinet Post

President Kibaki has missed the deadline he set for himself in announcing the new cabinet. It is widely believed that a cabinet minister from Kanu whom former President Moi himself had promised to deliver to Kibaki has rejected his appointment to the cabinet. That MP is believed to be the Kanu MP for Tinderet Henry Kosgey.

The new cabinet is expected to be announced in the next few hours.

This is further evidence that MPs are already thinking very hard about 2007 and their re-election bids then. And not Kenyans welfare and problems at the moment.

Kosgey seems to have bowed to the mounting pressure from Rift Valley against the Kibaki government.

MPs seem to have forgotten that a day is a long time in politics and 2007 is a long, long, long way off.