{"id":73719,"date":"2024-08-03T10:09:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T10:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/mvurya-denies-being-a-desk-minister-during-21-month-tenure-as-blue-economy-cs\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T10:09:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T10:09:57","slug":"mvurya-denies-being-a-desk-minister-during-21-month-tenure-as-blue-economy-cs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/mvurya-denies-being-a-desk-minister-during-21-month-tenure-as-blue-economy-cs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mvurya denies being a \u2018desk minister\u2019 during 21-month tenure as Blue Economy CS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Aug 3 \u2013 Trade Cabinet Secretary nominee Salim Mvurya has denied claims that during his 21-month tenure as Cabinet Secretary Blue Economy and Fisheries he was simply a \u2018desk minister.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He was responding Pokot South MP David Pkosing who claimed that the perception about the conduct of the minister within the docket was laid back saying he failed to traverse the country to understand issues bedeviling Kenyans in his docket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany Kenyans say or think that you are a desk minister, you only sit at your desk and run your ministry from your desk. Some people don\u2019t know Mvurya, if you ask some, let\u2019s say people in West Pokot, they think you are a Governor somewhere,\u201d Pkosing said.<\/p>\n<p>In his defense, Mvurya took time to list several regions in the country including Rift valley region, Tharaka Nithi County as well as coastal region where he has supervised inception of critical investment surrounding Blue Economy issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in West Pokot because of the Sh45 billion linearization programme, and many other places across the country. I may have not come to your constituency but I can give examples here, many of them. I think we also need to acknowledge that our country is very big,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Trade Cabinet Secretary nominee however pointed out that its not feasible to traverse the 47 counties since his first year in office involved building structures within the docket which included policy framework.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a lot of field information which I can give you here to confirm and I also want to say I will visit other parts Kenya,\u201d he noted.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Aug 3 \u2013 Trade Cabinet Secretary nominee Salim Mvurya has denied claims that during his 21-month tenure as Cabinet Secretary Blue Economy and Fisheries he was simply a \u2018desk minister.\u2019 He was responding Pokot South MP David Pkosing who claimed that the perception about the conduct of the minister within the docket was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}