Head of State Uhuru Kenyatta has reshuffled the Cabinet days after talking tough on mega corruption in his government.
In the changes announced on Friday morning, Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa was fired and replaced by his Education counterpart Amina Mohamed.
The firing of Rashid Echesa was hardly surprising given his controversies.
One year after his appointment, the former Orange Democratic Movement youth leader was accused of failure to utilize sports resources appropriately.
In October last year, the outgoing Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa came out guns blazing claiming that the Opposition leader Raila Odinga was engineering his removal from office.
“The President appointed me because I am a child of the poor. He knew that by appointing me, I would uplift another poor kid. The President was not stupid to appoint me. He knew the country had professors but I was still appointed,” Echesa said.
The agitated Cabinet Secretary pointed out that the new plot to oust him from office undermines the handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and the former Prime Minister.
Many have taken to twitter to mock the fallen Cabinet secretary with hilarious memes and videos illustrating his downfall.
