Justin Muturi: Why I'll Not Attend Cabinet Meetings
The CS has been absent from three Cabinet meetings in the past three months, missing sessions on January 21, February 11, and March 11, 2025, fueling speculation about a potential rift with President William Ruto.

Public Service Cabinet Secretary (CS) Justin Muturi has revealed that he will not attend Cabinet meetings until the issues of police abductions and extrajudicial killings are included in the agenda.
Muturi was explaining the reason for his recent absences from Cabinet meetings during an interview with Citizen TV. The CS has been absent from three Cabinet meetings in the past three months, missing sessions on January 21, February 11, and March 11, 2025, fueling speculation about a potential rift with President William Ruto.
“It is mandatory to attend meetings unless given authority or excused by the chair of the Cabinet, who is the president, but people do get indisposed for all manner of reasons,” Muturi said.
“In my case, I have written and sought to be excused from Cabinet meetings unless the agenda of abductions and extrajudicial killings is formally tabled before Cabinet, through a Cabinet memorandum, so that the Cabinet is able to express itself and give the country the way forward with regards to abductions and extrajudicial killings. So, I sought to be excused for these reasons.”
When asked whether his absences were a form of gross insubordination, he stated that “It is not insubordination when you seek to be excused."
"The President did say that we have had extrajudicial killings. What I expected, and I still expect, is that he should give direction or instruct the relevant Cabinet Secretary to prepare a Cabinet memorandum detailing these issues. These are not simple matters," he added.