President Kenyatta Lashes at one of his Ministers for attending Many funerals and insulting people

Angry Uhuru lectures Sports CS Rashid Echesa in front of Raila Odinga

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. No better is this truism captured than in an image that has been circulating on social media that shows a not-so-happy President Uhuru Kenyatta in the company of ODM leader Raila Odinga and Sports CS Rashid Echesa.

The trio were at the mausoleum of the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga at Kang’o ka Jaramogi in Siaya where the President gave the CS a dressing down for the poor state of the facility.

According to an MP who was at Kang’o ka Jaramogi in Siaya, the President was concerned that Mr Echesa has hardly taken up his ministerial duties with the seriousness it deserves, but instead was giving undue focus on attending funerals and insulting other leaders.

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“You seem to think that the work of a Cabinet secretary is to attend all funerals in western Kenya,” the President is reported to have told the shocked CS right in front of Mr Odinga and other senior government officials at the home of the former doyen of Opposition politics, Mr Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.

“Wewe kazi yako ni kungoja wikiendi ifike halafu unaenda kwa kila matanga kutusi watu. Hiyo sio kazi ya waziri. Hio ni kazi ya wabunge. Ni Kama hujui kazi yako.”

According to the source, the President’s anger was triggered by reports that the Jaramogi Mausoleum has been neglected by the State even though it is a gazetted national monument.

The grave was gazetted as a national monument in 2005 by the then Minister of State for National Heritage Najib Balala as a cultural, historical monument in remembrance of Jaramogi, who was Kenya’s first vice-president. The historical site is a one stop community museum and a Luo heroes’ exhibition centre.

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