President Uhuru Kenyatta is set to chair a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, May 12, the first in a period of more than year.
Sources privy to the matter disclosed to the media that the meeting will discuss key issues of national importance, barely three months before a new government takes over.
Further, the leaders will also deliberate on the adoption of government policies as well as assess their effectiveness.
All eyes will be on Deputy President William Ruto on whether he will show up for the meeting, after months of public spats and confrontations with his boss.
According to Chapter 9 article 152 of the Constitution, the Cabinet constitutes the President, his deputy, the Attorney General and at least 14 Cabinet Secretaries.
In the last one year, part of the cabinet has been attending routine meetings every Tuesday, chaired by Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has in the past come under sharp criticism in the past, over lack of accountability in his government - with others pointing out that some of the issues would be ironed out in Cabinet meetings that ought to be convened every Thursday.
The last time President Kenyatta chaired the meeting was February 18, 2020, whereby they collectively discussed the Vision 2030 project as well as Jubilee's Big 4 Agenda.
Since the last meeting, over 19 bills have been introduced at the National Assembly- hence signalling the vital role played by Cabinet meetings whereby the leaders discuss and approve government policies before they are implemented.
The February 2020 meeting saw the Head of State break the norm and involve the Chief Administrative Secretaries (CAS) and Principal Secretaries who gave their input on matters policies.
Kenyatta and Ruto have not been seeing eye to eye for years, since their unprecedented fallout, partly triggered by the March 2018 handshake, between the Head of State and the then opposition chief Raila Odinga.
