President William Ruto has fired all Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) save for Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi who also acts as Foreign Affairs minister.
The Head of State has also dismissed Attorney-General Justin Muturi while the office of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua remains unaffected.
“Upon reflection and listening keenly to what the people of Kenya have said and after holistic appraisal of the performance of my Cabinet and its achievements and challenges, I have today in line with the powers given to me decided to dismiss with immediate effect all the CSs and AG except the PCS and CS for Foreign Affairs and the office of the DP is not affected in any way,” announced Ruto.
The Head of State noted that, in the meantime, he will immediately engage in extensive consultations across different sectors and political formations, with the aim of setting up a “broad-based government” and one that is “lean, inexpensive, effective and efficient.”
He promised to assemble a new team that will assist him 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.”
