President Ruto fires all Cabinet Secretaries and Attorney General
President William Ruto has sacked all Cabinet Secretaries and Attorney General Justin Muturi in response to youth-led anti-government protests.
Only Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, who also doubles up as the Foreign Affairs CS has been spared.
‘Upon reflection, listening keenly to what the people of Kenya have said and after a holistic appraisal of the performance of my Cabinet and its achievements and challenges, I have, in line with the powers given to me by Article 152(1) and 152(5)(b) of the Constitution and Section 12 of the Office of the Attorney-General
Act, decided to dismiss with immediate effect all the Cabinet Secretaries and the Attorney-General from the Cabinet of the Republic of Kenya except the Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs,” said President Ruto in a televised announcement on Thursday.
Dr Ruto said he will engage other political players in reconstituting his Cabinet.
In the meantime, the President said, the operations of government will continue under the guidance of Principal Secretaries and other relevant officials.
“I will immediately engage in extensive consultations across different sectors and political formations, with the aim of setting up a broad-based government that will assist me in accelerating and expediting the necessary, urgent and irreversible, implementation of radical programmes to deal with the burden of debt, raising domestic resources, expanding job opportunities, eliminate wastage and unnecessary duplication of a multiplicity of government agencies and slay the dragon of corruption consequently making the government lean, inexpensive, effective and efficient,” he added.
Dr Ruto on Tuesday announced plans for a “broad-based political arrangement” lending credence that he could be considering co-opting Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) in his besieged Kenya Kwanza administration.
NTV has learnt that the President is toying with the possibility of a ‘government of national unity’ with opposition figures in his administration as part of his way out of the current political crisis triggered by the protesting youths, who have cornered him and demanded major re-organisation of his government.
It would not be the first time for Kenya to have a government of national unity.
When the late President Mwai Kibaki lost the 2005 referendum to the NO camp, led by his then Cabinet Minister Raila Odinga, he responded by firing his entire Cabinet. When he reconstituted it two weeks later, Mr Odinga and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) members were left out.
“Following the results of the Referendum, it has become necessary for me, as the President of the Republic, to reorganise my Government to make it more cohesive and better able to serve the people of Kenya,” Mr Kibaki said.
“I have directed that the Offices of all Ministers and all Assistant Ministers become vacant. Consequently, the occupants of the said offices cease to hold their respective offices with immediate effect,” he said.
List of the Ruto Cabinet dismissed.
Kithure Kindiki
Interior and National Administration
Njuguna Ndung’u
National Treasury and Planning
Aisha Jumwa
Gender, Culture, the Arts & Heritage
Aden Duale
Defence
Alice Wahome
Lands, Public Works, Housing & Urban Development
Alfred Mutua
Tourism & Wildlife
Moses Kuria
Public Service, Performance & Delivery Management
Rebecca Miano
Investments, Trade & Industry
Onesmus Kipchumba Murkomen
Roads and Transport
Roselinda Soipan Tuya
Environment and Forestry
Zachariah Mwangi Njeru
Water, Sanitation & Irrigation
Peninah Malonza
East African Community, The ASALs & Regional Development
Mithika Linturi
Agriculture and Livestock Development
Ezekiel Machogu
Education
Davis Chirchir
Energy and Petroleum
Ababu Namwamba
Youth Affairs and Sports
Simon Chelugui
Co-operatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Development
Salim Mvurya
Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs
Florence Bore
Labour and Social Protection
Eliud Owalo
Information, Communications and the Digital Economy
Susan Nakhumicha
Health
Justin Muturi
Attorney General
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