Mudavadi’s long-serving adviser Kibisu Kabatesi resigns
Veteran journalist and long-time aide of Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, Kibisu Kabatesi, has resigned from his place because the Secretary, Government Strategic Communications in President William Ruto’s authorities.
While it seems as a resignation, the destiny of the important thing Mudavadi ally had already been sealed following a letter he wrote to Head of Public Service Felix Koskei in a tiff over the workplace location and position of his boss. The growth comes barely 10 months into workplace.
And on October 15, Mr Kabatesi wrote to Mr Koskei over the matter, which caught many without warning. He insisted that Mr Mudavadi’s workplaces will stay on the Railways headquarters opposite to a memo from Mr Koskei that acknowledged in any other case.
Mr Kabatesi has served Mr Mudavadi as his director for communications, non-public secretary and spokesman for a few years.
In the resignation letter seen by the “Nation” dated October 25, 2023, and addressed to Mr Mudavadi, the Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, Mr Kabatesi resigned from his place efficient from November 1.
Mr Kabatesi thanked the President for the chance, time and assist he accorded to him whereas he served within the place.
He indicated that attributable to private causes, he has opted to resign.
“I undertake to resign from the position of the Secretary, Government Strategic Communications effective November 1, 2023. I do this with a clear conscience and utmost humility that my talents will find utility at another time in the service of our great nation,” learn the letter partially.
He ends by requesting fee of all of the amassed dues owed to him concurrently together with his resignation.
The ‘Nation’ has established that the push and pull inside excessive authorities workplaces led to him being proven the door.
His stinging assertion and stand on sure points together with the situation of the Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi’s workplaces, and the reorganisation of presidency departments, is alleged to have put the nail on the coffin of Mr Kabatesi’s dramatic, combative however brief stint on the Kenya Kwanza-run administration.
Last yr in October, President Ruto issued his first Executive Order No. 1 of 2022 setting out how his authorities shall be organised.
In the adjustments captured within the government order, the Prime Cabinet Secretary was to be housed on the Kenya Railways Headquarters. This put an finish to speculations that the Amani National Congress Leader would occupy the Harambee House Annex.
The transfer settled the controversy on whether or not Mudavadi was to occupy the Harambee House Annex Office with Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua shifting to work on the opposite facet of Harambee Avenue or Harambee House.
But a yr later, on October 11, 2023, Mr Koskei despatched out a communication designating authorities workplaces to ministries and state departments. In the communication which was additionally shared with the media, Mr Mudavadi’s workplace was moved to the outdated Treasury constructing.
But Mr Mudavadi would later oppose the transfer and Mr Kabatesi launched a stinging assertion to not solely assist his boss but in addition hit instantly at Mr Koskei.
According to him, Mr Mudavadi had been a squatter on the Treasury Building awaiting completion of renovations and refurbishment of his Railways Headquarters workplace. Nonetheless, the Prime CS relocated to the premises pending completion.
He has additionally served as a Presidential Director of Communication in three campaigns—in 2007 for Raila Odinga, in 2013 for Musalia Mudavadi and in 2017 for The NASA Coalition.
Efforts to succeed in Mr Kabatesi on telephone had been futile, and neither did he reply to brief textual content messages.