October 03, 2013 -
The appointment of former Treasury PS, Joseph Kinyau, as Chief of Staff and
Head of Public Service by President Uhuru Kenyatta, on Thursday and the subsequent neutralization of
the one-time powerful man, Francis Kimemia, to a mere secretary, is without
doubt sudden and surprising.
However, impeccable sources indicate
that the Westgate attack cost Kimemia, who has been on President Uhuru
Kenyatta’s microscope, for a while now, his job after he assumed Uhuru
Kenyatta’s powers.
This is after it emerged that Kimemia
impersonated President and gave an executive order to KDF to bomb the Westgate
Mall to kill the Al-Shabaab remnants and the hostages without the approval of
the President, who initially had objected to the idea.
During the Thursday Cabinet meeting chaired President,
Uhuru is said to have been angered by Kimemia’s action of trying to create
another centre of power besides his.
“Some of you think there are two
centres of power. I am the President and there is also the Deputy President.
There is no other centre of power”, thundered the angry Uhuru.
In the same meeting, it also emerged
it was the same Kimemia, who chaired the National Security Advisory Council,
which is a preserve of the President, where NIS reported the intelligence on
the Westgate attack, and the information never reached President Uhuru
Kenyatta.
Besides, Kimemia created another
centre of power at Harambee House together with Interior PS, Mutea Iringo,
during the Westgate attack, where they begun tweeting and holding parallel Press
Conferences, issuing conflicting information from that of Joseph Ole Lenku, who
was at the Westgate and the only man mandated to give the official Government
statements.
President Uhuru reduced Kimemia to a
mere secretary and his roles will now be writing minutes and invitation
letters, attending meetings and disseminating minutes to Ministries.
The Kenyan DAILY
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