No, former Energy CS Chirchir has not been appointed Chief of Staff to the President’s Office. - iVerify Kenya

No, former Energy CS Chirchir has not been appointed Chief of Staff to the President’s Office.

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President William Ruto appointed former Chief of Staff of the office, Deputy President Davis Chirchir, as Energy and Petroleum CS on September 2022.

Former President Uhuru Kenyatta appointed Chirchir as Energy and Petroleum CS for the first time in 2013. He was suspended in 2015 after being accused of corruption.

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Verified Oct, 13 2022

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Davis Chirchir, former Energy Cabinet Secretary, has been appointed Chief of Staff of the President’s Office.

Rating Justification

The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is False.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We discovered a video uploaded on State House Kenya’s YouTube page on September 27, 2022 during a livestream in which President William Ruto appointed Davis Chirchir as Energy and Petroleum CS while nominating Cabinet Secretaries at State House in Nairobi County.

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