President Ruto appoints Eliud Owalo, Moses Kuria, Dennis Itumbi to State jobs

President William Ruto has made fresh appointments to government, bringing back some of his allies who were perceived to be in the cold following the recent Cabinet reshuffling.

Head of Public Service and Chief of Staff Felix Koskei, in a statement released on Friday evening, said the new appointments will aid in supporting the Kenya Kwanza administration’s Bottom Up Economic Agenda (BETA).

Former ICT Cabinet Secretary Eliud Owalo now makes his way back to the government as Deputy Chief of Staff in charge of Performance and Delivery Management.

“This ministerial level appointment will among other roles, be responsible for effective and efficient implementation, monitoring and evaluation of priority projects and initiatives of the 5th administration in line with the BETA Plan,” stated Koskei.

"Further, the office is charged with overseeing performance of Government Ministries, Departments & Agencies in service delivery.”

President Ruto also, in the new appointments, named former Public Service CS Moses Kuria as a Senior Advisor in his Council of Economic Advisors.

He went ahead to appoint prominent digital strategist Dennis Itumbi as the Head of Creative Economy and Special Projects in the Executive Office of the President.

“This appointment will go into fostering this administration’s zeal of innovation and growth towards a robust yet novel sector in the economic sphere,” Koskei added.

Owalo and Kuria lost their Cabinet seats when President Ruto, in a landmark decision on July 11, 2024 following weeks of anti-government protests, fired all his ministers.

He later re-appointed some of them back to Cabinet, but the two were nowhere to be seen.

Itumbi, on the other hand, was in March last year sworn in as the ICT Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS), but lost the seat only a few months later when the High Court ruled the position as unconstitutional.