Shock as CS Joe Mucheru is at loggerheads with DPP Haji

Image result for joe mucheruICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru is known to be reserved and calm. Being one of the youngest Cabinet Secretaries in the current government, he today revoked the appointment of Jared Kwaga to the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication board.  Kwaga had been listed in a gazetted column in the ministry. He is said to be a close associate of Migori Governor Okoth Obado. His assets were frozen by the High Court after the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission filed a Sh1.9 billion recovery suit against him and six relatives. They include his mother and wife. Kwanga is said to be the brain behind a scheme that paid out Sh2 billion to non-existent companies for services not rendered in 2018.

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Joe Mucheru’s appointment of Jared Peter Odoyo Kwaga to the board of the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication (KIMC) over the weekend raised eyebrows. Yesterday, efforts to get Mucheru’s comment on the said appointment was unsuccessful. He did not return calls or respond to text messages. Mucheru, went back on the appointment after a public uproar that questioned the decision in regards to Kwaga, who is facing corruption allegations.

Kwaga is one of the key suspects in the ongoing Sh2 billion corruption investigation facing Migori Governor Okoth Obado. DPP Noordin Haji and DCI chief George Kinoti were pushing to have all graft suspects barred from holding public positions.

The suspect was selected for the position alongside former Bonchari MP Zebedeo John Opore, KBC chairman Edward Musebe, former NGO Coordination Board member Dee Kivuva Mutisya, former newsanchor Beatrice Marshall and former National Quality Control Laboratory Board member Kagiri Kamatu.

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The appointment was made public on February 8 through a gazette notice issued by the CS and was to see the board start a three-year term that would run until February 7, 2022. The embattled Kwaga runs a Pasha Centre in Migori which is part of a digital village project by the ICT ministry, that offers internet access to entrepreneurs who seek training and communication in rural areas.

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