Kenyan President William Ruto has announced a major cabinet reshuffle placing the foreign affairs ministry under the chief minister’s office and reassigning seven other ministers.
It comes after the president publicly criticised his ministers recently, accusing some of them of being clueless about their portfolios.
President Ruto says the changes are meant to “optimise performance and enhance service delivery as set out in the administration’s manifesto”.
The foreign affairs ministry will now be headed by the Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, with the previous minister Alfred Mutua now heading the tourism ministry.
Mutua had in May said that Kenya had entered a deal for legal migration for work in Canada but the North American nation later denied such an agreement and warned against fraudulent immigration schemes.
In recent weeks, Mutua has been the public face of Kenya’s offer to deploy 1,000 policemen to Haiti.
