President William Ruto has gone ahead to appoint all the Chief administrative Secretaries (CAS) he had nominated, this is despite parliament refusing to vet them.

Parliament through National Assembly speaker Moses Wetangula communicated that they cannot vet the nominees as there was no constitutional mandate for the August house to vet CASs

“The obligation to respect, uphold and defend the Constitution enjoins the House to refrain from assuming and discharging a role that it has not been expressly assigned by the Constitution or written law. In that regard, the National Assembly is unable to vet the nominees in the absence of an express constitutional or statutory requirement to do so,” read the memorandum by the Speaker of the National Assembly Moses Wetang’ula.

In a communication to the media, statehouse spokesperson Hussein Mohamed said that the president has effectively appointed the Chief Administrative Secretaries into their various ministries as they had been nominated.

“To facilitate the ascension of the Chief Administrative Secretaries to Office, the State Appointees are now scheduled to subscribe to their solemn Oath of Office,” Mr Mohammed said.