NCCK Urges William Ruto to Sack CSs Murkomen, Nakhumicha, and Linturi for Incompetence
The National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) has demanded the dismissal of three Cabinet Secretaries.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, April 3, NCCK Nairobi region chairman Alphonse Kanga accused Health Secretary Susan Nakhumicha, Transport Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen, and Agriculture Secretary Mithika Linturi of incompetence.
NCCK accused Nakhumicha of negligence in handling the strikes by doctors, clinical officers, and medical laboratory officers unions, which have prevented thousands of Kenyans from receiving treatment.
According to the council, the misery faced by patients in public hospitals should be sufficient grounds for the Health CS to retire.
“If I was the minister of health by this time, either if one person dies in some countries because there is something wrong, it is either she fixes it or steps out; it is simple,” Kanga said, as reported by Citizen TV.
The clerics also want Cabinet Secretaries for Agriculture and Transportation to resign in light of the fake fertilizer scam and rising road fatality in recent months.
The clergy also called CS Linturi to resign after the Ministry of Agriculture’s fake fertilizer issue.
They accused Linturi of neglecting to crack down on those participating in the alleged fake fertiliser scam, claiming that the CS was sheltering those who were duping unsuspecting farmers using the government fertilizer subsidy scheme.
“The fertiliser was distributed through the systems that exist; they have the accountability, they know the storekeepers, and they have the lorries that transported… the Ministry of Agriculture should come and tell us this happened and either so and so has been sacked or he himself he has stepped down,” they said.
CS Murkomen, for his part, is on the spot over the increasing figures of road carnage, with NCCK officials claiming the CS has failed to control the situation.
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NCCK Urges William Ruto to Sack CSs Murkomen, Nakhumicha, and Linturi for Incompetence
