{"id":74215,"date":"2024-08-04T16:12:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T16:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/04\/muturi-says-relationship-with-president-ruto-was-cordial\/"},"modified":"2024-08-04T16:12:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T16:12:36","slug":"muturi-says-relationship-with-president-ruto-was-cordial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/muturi-says-relationship-with-president-ruto-was-cordial\/","title":{"rendered":"Muturi says relationship with President Ruto was cordial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Aug 4 \u2013 Public Service Cabinet Secretary nominee Justin Muturi has refuted claims he didn\u2019t have a cordial working relationship with President William Ruto as the government\u2019s principal legal adviser.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A local daily had reported that President Ruto does not consult him, despite being the State\u2019s chief adviser. <\/p>\n<p>Before his dismissal last month, Muturi served as the Attorney General before he was reappointed to the Public Service docket.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to concerns raised by Minority Leader Junet Mohammed, the Former National Assembly Speaker scoffed at the reports saying it was out of context.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur media are innovative and how they innovate can cause the jitters\u2019. The headline and the story were not in alignment. Inside the story, they said 99.5 percent of advice has been taken and implemented. It was not a correct story,\u201d Muturi told the vetting committee.<\/p>\n<p>Muturi poured cold water on the media reports saying he can defend his working relationship with President Ruto by tabling his exit report during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could give an exit report on the 21-month tenure that I was in charge. That story was not correct because we give advisory to a lot of issues including international law and the county governments,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t remember any advice that wasn\u2019t implemented. I must stay I had an exciting period at the state law office,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>However, he noted that several ministries have failed to implement the Attorney General counsel by failing to adhere to the advice issued by state counsels designated in the dockets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe office of the Attorney General is signatory to every cabinet memo generated by every ministry and on some occasions, we have had to return many memos and I have had to issue circulars to the ministries,\u201d he said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Aug 4 \u2013 Public Service Cabinet Secretary nominee Justin Muturi has refuted claims he didn\u2019t have a cordial working relationship with President William Ruto as the government\u2019s principal legal adviser. A local daily had reported that President Ruto does not consult him, despite being the State\u2019s chief adviser. Before his dismissal last month, [&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-74215","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\/74215","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=74215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}