Former Information Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru has described this Christmas as the most peaceful in recent history.
He said the beauty of it all is that he can now “sleep when I feel like, wake up when I want to, eat when hungry and walk or ride around with no worries”.
Mr Mucheru stated that he will continue to live in this manner until the New Year, when he will begin to consider his options now that he is no longer in government.
“In government, I used to be in hotels… sleeping away from my family, my good pets… eating food you have no idea who cooked,” he said in a live interview on Royal Media Services’ platforms on Saturday night.
Kenyans who support the Kenya Kwanza government, he claims, “have a habit of mocking those who worked in President Uhuru’ Kenyatta’s government.”
He will never understand “why they keep celebrating and making it such a big deal that they sent us home.” “.
Mr. Mucheru queried: “Who doesn’t enjoy returning home? What’s the big deal about someone returning home? Why would anyone believe that returning home is a bad thing?”
“We went home, yes, many of us, and yet I have yet to receive a single distress phone call from any of my former coworkers,” he added.
“For example, we recently attended Dr Fred Matiang’i’s son’s wedding in Naivasha and audited ourselves along with many of our former Cabinet Secretaries and other senior guys, and the verdict is that so far so good…we are doing just fine,” he said.
“Even the former president is in good health.
We have accepted that we are no longer part of government; we are aware that a government exists.”
Mr Mucheru, who was in the firing line during the contentious campaigns leading up to the August 9 General Election, insisted that “we, especially I, feel fine.”
Mr. Mucheru, along with former Interior PS Mr. Karanja Kibicho, had insisted during the campaigns that Mr. Raila Odinga would receive 60% of the vote.
Dr. William Ruto won with 50.6 percent of the vote, while Mr. Odinga received 48 percent.
He responded that he had no regrets “because there is no law prohibiting me from supporting that cause. It was my best wish for Kenya and Kenyans, but the majority saw it differently.”
