Francis Kimemia replaced by Joseph Kinyua as Head of Public Service

[Ab-Titchaz]

President Kenyatta names former PS Joseph Kinyua Chief of Staff, Public Service Head.

President Kenyatta (right) and Joseph Kinyua (left) after he was appointed Chief of Staff and Head of Public Service at State House, Nairobi September 26, 2013. PSCU


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• President Kenyatta reveals Mr Kinyua's new role during a meeting of Cabinet and Principal Secretaries at State House, Nairobi.
  
• Mr Kinyua pledges to serve Kenyans with dedication.
• He holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in economics from the University of Nairobi.
  
  
  President Kenyatta has appointed former Treasury Permanent Secretary Joseph Kinyua as Chief Of Staff and Head of Public Service.
  
  
  
  President Kenyatta revealed Mr Kinyua's new role during a meeting of Cabinet and Principal Secretaries at State House, Nairobi Thursday.
  
  
  
  In his role, Mr Kinyua will, among other things, coordinate Cabinet affairs and Cabinet programmes.
  
  
  
  "I have absolute trust and confidence that you will continue to serve your country with distinction,” President Kenyatta told Mr Kinyua.
  
  
  
  DEDICATION
  
  
  
  Mr Kinyua thanked the President for the appointment and pledged to serve Kenyans with dedication.
  
  
  
  "I have served my country for most of my life with dedication and will continue to do so in this new role. I am deeply honoured by the trust and confidence the President has shown in me,” Mr Kinyua said.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  President Kenyatta (then Finance Minister) confers with the Treasury PS Joseph Kinyua during preparation of the 2011 /2012 budget at the Treasury in this file photo.
  
  
  
  
  
  For nearly a decade, Mr Kinyua served as Permanent Secretary in the Treasury and was a central figure in the execution and oversight of most economic policies in former President Kibaki’s government.
  
  
  
  Mr Kinyua has served government and quasi-government agencies for more than three decades.
  
  
  
  He also served as director in the research and financial markets departments at the Central Bank of Kenya. He is also a former senior official at the International Monetary Fund.
  
  
  
  Mr Kinyua holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in economics from the University of Nairobi.
  
  President Kenyatta names former PS Joseph Kinyua Chief of Staff, Public Service head - News - nation.co.ke
  
  

 

[mfianchi]

Hivi hiyo nafasi ni ya watu kutoka MT Kenya tu?hizi nafasi ni lazima utoke MT Kenya gavana wa benki kuu,mkuu wa intelejensia,mkuu wa upepelezi polisi,pia kwenye hazina ,ingawa mzee wa mahindi kafanikiwa kumweka mtu wa kwao kwenye nusu mkate wa safari hii

 

[kadoda11]

Hivi hiyo nafasi ni ya watu kutoka MT Kenya tu?hizi nafasi ni lazima utoke MT Kenya gavana wa benki kuu,mkuu wa intelejensia,mkuu wa upepelezi polisi,pia kwenye hazina ,ingawa mzee wa mahindi kafanikiwa kumweka mtu wa kwao kwenye nusu mkate wa safari hii

mkuu hakuna la kushangaa hapo.ndo siasa za kenya hizo.ukabila!ukabila!

 

[Ngongo]

Ukabila Kenya hauwezi kumalizika kama mwenendo wenyewe ni huu.

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

Ukabila Kenya hauwezi kumalizika kama mwenendo wenyewe ni huu.

Watu walidhania huyu Uhuru angalau kwa vile kasoma marekani atakua tofauti lakini ngoma bado ipo pale pale na
hamna jipya kamanda. Hata pale airport baada ya ule moto vibarua viliota majani lakini waliochukua nyadhifa
walitoka 'kabila teule'.

Jamaa anazidi kuharibu nchi huyu.

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

Hivi hiyo nafasi ni ya watu kutoka MT Kenya tu?hizi nafasi ni lazima utoke MT Kenya gavana wa benki kuu,mkuu wa intelejensia,mkuu wa upepelezi polisi,pia kwenye hazina ,ingawa mzee wa mahindi kafanikiwa kumweka mtu wa kwao kwenye nusu mkate wa safari hii

Afu jamaa alikua kesha-retire na kafukuliwa aje ale 'keki'. Kwani hamna watu wapya wa kuchukua hizi nyadhifa?
Mtu keshajiuzulu anakula pension na hela ya nguvu afu unakwenda kumchukua uzeeni na kumpa kazi ya hela kubwa.
Kibaki alifanya vivyo hivyo na Generali Ali...mtu keshastaafu kama mkuu wa jeshi la polisi, ana pension ya nguvu na
security juu...kisha Kibaki kenda kumpa kazi kama mkuu wa shirika la reli. Hii mijitu inaudhi we acha tu aisee.

 

[VUVUZELA]

Ukabila Kenya hauwezi kumalizika kama mwenendo wenyewe ni huu.

Kabila gani?

 

[demulikuy]

Kenya ukizaliwa si mkikuyu basi wewe ni second citizen na umelaaniwa milele.

 

[simplemind]

Kememia was too confrontational,disruptive, bull in China shop. Kinyua is more diplomatic nadhani right leader for a divided nation.

 

[Crucial Man]

Ukabila kama kawaida,vikao vinaendeshwa kwa kilugha kwenda mbele.

 

[VUVUZELA]

Kenya ukizaliwa si mkikuyu basi wewe ni second citizen na umelaaniwa milele.

Kuna ukweli mzito ndani ya hii hoja yako

 

[Geza Ulole]

Kwaniii nyie ni people of Mumbi mpaka mlalamike?

 

[Nairoberry]

Watu walidhania huyu Uhuru angalau kwa vile kasoma marekani atakua tofauti lakini ngoma bado ipo pale pale na
hamna jipya kamanda. Hata pale airport baada ya ule moto vibarua viliota majani lakini waliochukua nyadhifa
walitoka 'kabila teule'.

Jamaa anazidi kuharibu nchi huyu.

huo nao si unafiki kwa upande wako? je mzee wako wa samaki angeliweza kuibadili kenya isiwe na ukabila? we unishangaza sana, nilikwambia kabla ya uchaguzi kuwa uhuru atashinda ukanikejeli sasa leo nani acheka?

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

huo nao si unafiki kwa upande wako? je mzee wako wa samaki angeliweza kuibadili kenya isiwe na ukabila? we unishangaza sana, nilikwambia kabla ya uchaguzi kuwa uhuru atashinda ukanikejeli sasa leo nani acheka?

Punguza munkar.

"Mtoto wa mwizi ni mwizi"....kwa ufupi hamna jipya ulosema.

 

[VUVUZELA]

Ukabila kama kawaida,vikao vinaendeshwa kwa kilugha kwenda mbele.

Kwa lugha gani?

 

[Crucial Man]

Kwa lugha gani?

kikikuyu,hapo ni kupanga jinsi ya kuiba tu..

 

[VUVUZELA]

kikikuyu,hapo ni kupanga jinsi ya kuiba tu..

Kenya hakuna tribalism banaaaa. Mbona secretary of state ni yule mama msomali?

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

Kenya hakuna tribalism banaaaa. Mbona secretary of state ni yule mama msomali?

Kamanda,
taratibu usichanganye mambo, Kenya hakuna cheo kama Secretary of State last time I checked.

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

Uhuru reads the Riot Act on people he accuses of creating ‘a parallel centre of power'

Secretary to the Cabinet, Francis Kimemia

By BIKETI KIKECHI

Although his official title is Secretary to the Cabinet, Francis Kimemia has been performing duties of the powerful office of the Head of Public Service. But he won't perform that role any more. That job has been assigned to former Treasury PS Joseph Kinyua.

And Kimemia's duties have been reduced to writing invitation letters to Cabinet secretaries to attend Cabinet meetings, taking minutes during the meetings and disseminating the same to the secretaries. In a sense, the Westgate attack has cost the former Head of Civil Service and Secretary to the Cabinet his job.

At a Cabinet meeting in State House, Nairobi on Thursday, President Uhuru Kenyatta is said to have read the Riot Act on people he accused of creating a "parallel centre of power" within the government.

The President is said to have seethed with rage after it emerged that some senior officials in Harambee House, the former Office of the President, were issuing unauthorised instructions over the Westgate Mall attack.

And immediately after making his point, the President introduced Joseph Kinyua to replace former powerful PS in the Office of the President Mr Kimemia.

Kimemia was also at the Thursday meeting in his capacity as Secretary to the Cabinet.It also emerged that Kimemia chaired the National Security Advisory Committee (NSAC) meeting where the National Intelligence Service (NIS) says it provided information on the impending attack at the mall.

"He is secretary to the Cabinet and only God knows in what capacity he was chairing that meeting," said a close Uhuru ally at Harambee House.

Furious Uhuru

A Cabinet secretary told The Standard on Sunday that Uhuru was furious when he addressed the Thursday Cabinet meeting.

"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," Uhuru is said to have warned at the State House meeting.

It was after he made the tough remarks that Uhuru introduced the appointment of Kinyua as the Chief of Staff and Head of Public Service.
Kinyua became the centre of attention after the meeting with all Cabinet secretaries lining up to greet and congratulate him. That effectively made him the third in command within government after Deputy President William Ruto and the second in command at State House after the President.Sources in the Cabinet informed The Standard on Sunday that the changes were made following a series of communication goofs where Kimemia was implicated.

Concern was raised when Interior Permanent Secretary Mutea Iringo called a Press conference at Harambee House when his boss Cabinet Secretary Joseph ole Lenku was addressing another one at Peponi Road in Westlands.

"It is not possible Iringo could have called that Press conference without the knowledge of Kimemia who is in charge of affairs at Harambee House," said our source.

The Cabinet secretary was with the military generals and top police officers including Inspector General David Kimaiyo, and CID boss Ndegwa Muhoro when he was issuing the Press statement on Sunday evening.
The team had opened an operation camp near the site of the attack but Kimemia and Iringo were conspicuously absent.

"The president noticed that because the whole world could see there was somebody who was trying to create another centre of power," said an official from the Executive Office of The President.

The management of the crisis became more complicated when the Interior ministry started tweeting and releasing conflicting information. At the same time, the police service was releasing different information from what was coming out of Harambee House.

The social media went viral on the conflicting information, which top government officials blamed on Kimemia. According to our source, Kimemia had not realised that Harambee House was no longer the Office the President.

"The last time Uhuru was at Harambee House was when he was President-elect and has since worked from his office at State House," our source explained.

It appears Uhuru was surprised to learn that Kimemia was the head of NSAC and was getting all security briefs, but some of the information was not reaching him and other agencies.

"The information on the Westgate attack was given but it did not go anywhere. The NIS had informed them what vehicles the Al-Shabaab would use and at what time they would attack. Kimaiyo was also said to have been there and that is why NIS keeps saying they gave information to top officials at OP and police," said our source.

State House officials say Kimemia had taken too long to understand that he was secretary to the Cabinet, whose job is to write letters of invitation, take minutes and circulate them.

Kimemia's comment
" Kimemia surprisingly is still chair of NSAC just like he was when he was head of public service when he is only supposed to be secretary to the Cabinet," said another senior officer at the ministry of Interior.

When The Standard on Sunday contacted Kimemia to comment on the unfolding events, he sent an SMS saying: "No comment. I know what I am supposed to do."

The Standard on Sunday is in possession of letters Kimemia wrote to Cabinet secretaries while designating himself as Permanent Secretary, to the Cabinet and Head of Public service.

In the letter dated 24th June, Reference number OP.CAB.9/1, the "Head of Public Service" an office that was scrapped with the beginning of Uhuru's term, he instructed all Cabinet secretaries not to gazette any new appointments of chairpersons or chief executive officers in the government parastatals unless in concurrence with the Office of the President.

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[Ab-Titchaz]

Hivi hiyo nafasi ni ya watu kutoka MT Kenya tu?hizi nafasi ni lazima utoke MT Kenya gavana wa benki kuu,mkuu wa intelejensia,mkuu wa upepelezi polisi,pia kwenye hazina ,ingawa mzee wa mahindi kafanikiwa kumweka mtu wa kwao kwenye nusu mkate wa safari hii

Kamanda,

soma hapa chini nd'o utashangaa. Huyu bwana kwa ufupi keshampiku William Ruto ukitazama maswala ya
'Center of Power'.

Joseph Kinyua now the second in command at State House after the President

Chief of Staff and Head of Civil Service Joseph Kinyua

By JOE OMBUOR

In a strange twist of fate, the Westgate terrorist attack has created an opportunity for the elevation of former Treasury PS Joseph Kinyua to the second in command at State House; answerable only to the President.

Kinyua is the new Chief of Staff and Head of Civil Service.

Popular opinion has it that President Kenyatta saw a safer pair of hands in Kinyua who, as Chief Executive of Kenya's national treasury for close to a decade, oversaw most economic policies.

Kinyua was a key pillar in Kibaki's government during which he helped with the groundwork for President Uhuru Kenyatta's new government.

Affable and soft-spoken, Kinyua served as a high-ranking economist in both the Treasury and the Central Bank where his duties included crafting budgets. For over three decades, he was a major actor in policy decisions.

Kinyua's arduous but sure walk to the top started in 1980 when he landed his first government posting as an economist at the CBK's research department

His achievements are galore. His tenure as Permanent Secretary in the Treasury saw the crafting of new policies and opening up of the debt register to the public, a move that critics argue was prompted by pressure from the civil society.

A stickler for thoroughness, Kinyua in his tenure at the Treasury made a few regular updates on the state of the economy, including quarterly budgetary and economic reviews.

Pundits credit him with the increase in funds raised for government spending. They say revenue jumped nearly four fold under his watch at the Treasury enabling the state to fund close to 90 per cent of its public spending requirements.

But hurdles abound.

Mr Kinyua often grappled with the politics of the day as happened in the run up to the 2013 General Election when he was accused of supporting a group competing for political power by attending its secret meetings. Stung to the core, he defended his movements in a full-page newspaper advertisement

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