Prepare Handover Reports, Uhuru Kenyatta Directs Cabinet Secretaries

President Uhuru Kenyatta has directed all Cabinet Secretaries to prepare handover reports, signaling the naming if his new line-up in a few days.

The directive is the initial procedure towards reconstitution of the Cabinet. Uhuru is expected to expand his new Cabinet to the constitutional maximum of 22 Cabinet Secretaries.

The handover reports will facilitate the smooth transition in dockets where new CSs will be appointed.

The directive came amid a meeting between Uhuru and the leadership of the National Assembly on whether MPs will alter their calendar to delay their recess so as to vet the new nominees.

MPs are scheduled to go for recess from Friday until February 2, 2018.

"We shall consult with the President whether the House can go on recess on Thursday as per the calendar," Majority Leader Aden Duale told the Star on Sunday.

Parliament controls its own calendar but the rule of interdependence often triggers consultations between the two arms of government on cross-cutting businesses.

A senior Jubilee MP told the Star that they could vote on a procedural motion to push the adjournment date to December 21, to allow the House to vet new Cabinet nominations before going on recess.

-The Star|LEWIS NYAUNDI and JAMES MBAKA