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Appointment: Raila man Prof Makau Mutua joins Ruto's growing sea of advisers
President William Ruto and Prof Makau Mutua.
President William Ruto has named yet another Raila Odinga ally, Prof Makau Mutua, to a plum government job.
Prof Mutua has been named Senior Adviser of Constitutional Affairs in the Executive Office of the President.
"I welcome you to join a dynamic team of public servants in the implementation of our Bottom Up Economic Transformation Agenda," President Ruto said in a statement.
With the appointment, he joins President Ruto's growing sea of advisers whose wage bill has come under scrutiny as it balloons. Budget documents previously tabled in Parliament indicated that the cost of maintaining the team across the six advisory units will cross the Sh1 billion mark in the year starting July.
The appointment also comes 8 months after the Head of State promised to reduce his ever-growing list of advisers
During last year's youth-led protests, the President ordered that the number of advisers in government offices be reduced by 50 per cent.
"The number of advisers in the government will be reduced by 50 per cent within the civil service with immediate effect," the president said on July 5.
However, since then, he has named more allies to plum jobs including Prof Adams Oloo, Joe Ager and Dr Silvestor Okumu Kasuku, all close allies of Mr Odinga, as economic advisers.
Other members of the Council of Economic Advisers, led by Dr David Ndii, are Augustine Cheruiyot (Agribusiness and Finance), Prof Abdi Guliye (Animal Production), Dr. Dominic Menjo (Food security and Animal production), Dr Nancy Laiboni, (Agricultural Economics), Henry Kinyua (Crops/value chains) and Steven Otieno (Cooperatives).