Grapevine

By Standard Media
Jul 24, 2024

ODM reaps big as dismissed CSs pull comebacks

ODM Deputy Party Leader Ali Hassan Joho. [File, Standard]

President William Ruto has unveiled the second batch of his picks for the new Cabinet, featuring names from his previous cabinet, and others from the Raila Odinga-led ODM Party, ending days of speculation.

In the broad-based government arrangement, he had promised, the president has ceded four cabinet slots to the Opposition in an attempt to win their support and achieve national unity after weeks of anti-government protests.

ODM Deputy Party leaders Wycliffe Oparanya and Ali Hassan Joho are among the top beneficiaries of the cabinet shakeup.

Oparanya will now head the Ministry of Cooperatives and MSMEs Development which oversees Ruto’s flagship Hustler Fund loaning facility, if approved by Parliament.