My record speaks for itself, Muturi
Muturi was dismissed from his Cabinet position a few days ago.
3d agoBRIAN ORUTARealtime
Government Spokesperson Isaac Mwaura now says that if indeed former Public Service CS Justin Muturi was honest, he should have resigned.
Speaking on Monday, Mwaura said that it becomes dishonest when one waits to be fired to start revealing things about the government.
He insisted that if some decisions in the Cabinet clash with one’s principles, the best thing to do is to resign.
Mwaura said that some leaders have previously resigned and they went out as principled persons.
“When you feel that you are really aggrieved and you do not go by the principles of a certain issue in government, the honest and fair thing to do is to resign out of principle. People have done that in the past. Mwai Kibaki did so, Kenneth Matiba, Raila Odinga when he couldn’t agree with Ford Kenya, he went on his even Martha Karua, it goes ahead and proves you are a principled person.
“You don’t just throw epithets and expect to be sacked so that you reap political out of it. If it goes against your conscience, the best thing is for you to resign and say I no longer associate with this, this is not what we campaigned for then move on with life. But when you wait to be sacked, then you say you are baring it all it reeks of some kind of dishonesty,” he said on Nation FM.
He noted that he sits in many meetings chaired by President William Ruto and he always encourages debate and not the fear alleged by Muturi.
Mwaura added that in some instances, they do not agree on some issues, but the principle of collective responsibility demands that what is agreed in Cabinet is the position of the government.
He said that for Muturi’s case, he had issues he should have raised in Cabinet but chose to raise them in public.
“If you have an issue, you raise it internally, you have it discussed, and then of course, when you come out, you speak on the commonly agreed decision. That is the only way there can be discipline in government and that has always been the case and that is the principle of collective responsibility.”
