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Kenyan President Fires Entire Cabinet After Anti-tax Protests

8 months agoFri, 12 Jul 2024 07:13:22 GMT

Kenyan President Fires Entire Cabinet After Anti-tax Protests

Kenya’s President William Ruto has dismissed all Cabinet Secretaries and Attorney General Justin Muturi following deadly youth-led protests that forced the withdrawal of a contentious tax bill.

The only exception was Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, who also serves as Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary.

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua remains unaffected by the cabinet dissolution, as he cannot be legally dismissed.

In a televised address on Thursday, 11 July, Ruto explained that his decision came after careful reflection, listening to the concerns of Kenyans, and conducting a comprehensive assessment of his cabinet. He said:

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.
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Ruto said government operations would continue under the guidance of Principal Secretaries and other relevant officials. He added:

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, eliminating 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.

Ruto is reportedly considering forming a “government of national unity” by including opposition figures in his administration, as a potential solution to the ongoing political crisis sparked by youth protests.

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18 Comments

Zuze · 8 months ago

The people's power has sent Ruto scampering and looking for scapegoats. In my considered opinion, Ruto's political life is hanging by a thread. He has read the signs properly. After the mass rejection of his budget, which by the way he initially stood by when the riots initially broke out, he is now playing the grand statesman and blaming everyone else, save himself. Once people have tasted blood, the next was certainly going to be Ruto himself. In an attempt to pull the rug from beneath the people's feet, he has sacrificed his cabinet. Fair and fine. But why stop at Cabinet which he shares and not Parliament which passed the bill? Obviously dissolution of Parliament would mean a new election, which as things stand Ruto is unlikely to win, bearing in mind the wafer-thin margin he survived when he was elected. In trying to go for a GNU Ruto is serving only himself and buying himself time. It has nothing to do with statesmanship but self preservation. He is trying to bribe the opposition into silence through a semblance of inclusivity. Ruto is only saving his skin. He ain't a statesman as he pretends to be. He's just a self-serving politician out to hoodwink the gullible public.

Juju · 8 months ago

People dont want you as well Ruto. you are sacrificing others for your own benefit, you should leave as well becoz u re also unwanted.

🇰🇪 · 8 months ago

Ruto huchi 🤤

Chibaba · 8 months ago

ma Zimbabweans takazvitadza tinotya pfuti

huchi · 8 months ago

he is a listening President and has realised that without the opposition he can't pull it.he trying to dilute the political acid Kenyans wanted to pour on him with.l think that's a good move for Kenyans to prosper a d enjoy better life .he removed the first lady bugdet.oooh lord if your hear cries of your children down in a Southern Africa country but tisingaperi tinoshura

unknown · 8 months ago

A leader not an iron fist ruler. He still can hear the cries of his people.

nc · 8 months ago

VaRuto vari kuedza wani imbovapai second chance. uko zvenga better zviri kuoneka kuti pane munhu panyanga. manje kwedu i zero. mari dziri kungo biwa pese pese mkuru akangoti zii.

...,. · 8 months ago

can a head survive after all other parts of the body are removed? he was their leader, and their failure is his failure. the people wanted him out and they will eventually succeed. that resulted from too much debt, most of it owed to china, whose way of raising money for repayment was going to increase poverty and reduce the living standards of the kenyans, especially the youth.

👀👀 · 8 months ago

zvino ydu gvt i 1 family state ,nevazukuru kumsoro ikoko,so zvakavharana

baba jukwa · 8 months ago

see what other principled leaders do, this is a good illustration of a willing leader... l think GNU is a answer to the problem

Shadows · 8 months ago

Big up Ruto ,he is willing kuti vanhu vararame upenyu hwakanaka

Cde hondo · 8 months ago

Ruto wants to form a unity gvt like what ramaphosa did in SA

lootocrats · 8 months ago

manje ED angadzinge vana vake here avo akaita ma minister? shame on 🇿🇼

ggg · 8 months ago

so touching

🥴 · 8 months ago

Aiwa ka hatinga tevedzeri zve veku Kenya kana Mzansi otherwise ED Aripa front nekuti vagara ane POLAD that works better er had it been Ana Nero were coperative