SOCIAL MEDIA PRESSURE LED TO WAIGURUS RESIGNATION

Ms Anne Waiguru resigned as Cabinet Secretary to protect her children from social media, according to her staff.

Publication of her family’s photos on social media platforms was the last straw that led her to ask the President to relieve her of her duties as the CS for Devolution and Planning, according to ministry staff who asked not to be named because they are not authorised to speak on her behalf.

Ms Waiguru, perhaps the most powerful CS in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government, has been under pressure from the Opposition and a section of Jubilee MPs who warned her that her continued stay in the Cabinet was jeopardising the coalition’s re-election chances in 2017.

Pictures of her family started getting into social media and she decided it was too much. She could no longer handle the threat that it posed to her family.

One of the photos showed her son driving an expensive car — which he has since denied owning.

NYS lost Sh791 million to fraud and another Sh695 million was almost gone when Ms Waiguru call in the police to investigate.

by James Taiti