Permanent Representative to the UN Habitat, Nairobi and former Health CS Susan Nakhumicha has said that its time the Luyha community to benefit from the government.
Nakhumicha said that the community should demand what is rightfully theirs and not beg as they are in government.
The former CS said the Luyha community should plan on addition and multiplication and not minus or division.
“Sisi Waluyha lazima tufungue macho. Wabukusu tunasema, ukitaka kula vitu zile nono ambazo mama amezifungua, unakula wakati bado yuko ndani ya nyumba hajatoka nje. Hii serekali tuliyomo, ni serikali yetu na tuko na haki kukula kila kitu kwa hii serikali,” she said.
This loosely translates to: We Luyha community have to open our eyes. As the Bukusu say, when you want to eat good things that the mother has prepared, you have to eat when you are still inside the house before she goes out. We are in the government, it is our government and we have the right to eat everything in the government.
She warned that no leader should come and try to divide the community because they are meant for greater things.
“Even Ambassador Ababu Namwamba can be a leader here. Even me, it is not just the face but I have the brains. You have seen that when we are assigned duties we deliver,” she added.
The former CS further urged the Luyha community not to beg but to order what is rightfully theirs.
She spoke during the burial ceremony of Mama Agatha, fondly known as Naineki Nyambura Grade One, was the mother of former Sports Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba and the pillar of the Namwamba family.
The funeral brought together mourners from across the country, reflecting the wide impact of her life and the esteem in which the family is held.
President William Ruto on March 20, 2025 nominated Nakhumicha Permanent Representative to the UN Habitat, Nairobi.
A statement from State House said Nakhumicha was appointed in instituted changes to the organisation of government.
“The Presidential Action, serialized as Executive Order No. 1 of 2025, causes nominations to and re-assignments of State Departments, as well as postings to the nation's foreign service,” it said.
State House said the changes were driven by the need to harness the opportunities within emerging sectors of the economy, as well as to address challenges affecting Kenya's social fabric.
“Collectively, the changes seek to further accelerate the implementation of the Administration's seminal socio-economic blue-print, the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda.”
Nakhumicha had detailed her life after Ruto reshuffled his Cabinet in June last year and axed some members including her.
Nakhumicha said that she was concentrating on farming and selling cabbages in Cherangany.
A day after Nakhumicha claimed that she has been facing financial challenges after her dismissal during the July 2024 Cabinet restructuring, leaders from Western urged Ruto to consider appointing her in another position.
