Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi has said he wrote to President William Ruto seeking to be excused from attending cabinet meetings until the issue of abductions and extrajudicial killings is listed among key agendas of discussion in any scheduled sitting.
Speaking on Wednesday night, Muturi said that until the issue is listed as an agenda, he would not attend the Cabinet meetings.
Muturi, however, noted that attending Cabinet meetings is mandatory unless one has permission from the President, which is what he sought in his letter to Ruto.
“It’s mandatory to attend Cabinet meetings unless given permission not to by the chair, but people do get indisposed for all manner of reasons.
“I have written and sought to be excused from cabinet meetings until the agenda of abductions and extrajudicial killings is tabled through parliament or cabinet so that the Cabinet is able to express itself and give the country the way forward,” Muturi said on Citizen TV.
Asked whether his actions did not amount to insubordination, the CS insisted that he sought to be excused in a letter to the chair of the Cabinet, and it is therefore not the case.
“It is not insubordination when you seek to be excused.”
Muturi has not attended any Cabinet meetings since he publicly called out the government over the ongoing abductions across the country.
He called out the government after his son Lesly Muturi was abducted as he was in the company of his friends, including Embakasi West MP Mark Mwenje.
He would later on be released following intervention of the CS, who claims he met President William Ruto who then called the National Intelligence Service (NIS) boss Noordin Haji.
Haji, according to Muturi admitted that they had his son and that he would be released.
Muturi insists that the abductions and extrajudicial killings have affected many families in the country, and it would be good if the government addressed the matter conclusively.
