Kenya President, William Ruto has dissolved all cabinet secretaries, ministers except Prime Cabinet Secretary/Minister Musalia Mudavadi and the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs with immediate effect. His Deputy President, Rigathi Gachagua has been excused.
“I have decided to dismiss with immediate effect all cabinet secretaries and attorney generals of the Cabinet of Kenya except the Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs,” President Ruto stated in a televised address to the nation.
The President revealed that the office of the Deputy President is not affected by this decision and the Principal Secretaries will coordinate the affairs of the Ministries until a new cabinet is appointed.
President Ruto noted that he will engage in extensive consultations across different sectors, political formations, and with Kenyans from both the public and private sectors to form a broad-based government. This new government will assist him in implementing his programs, including urgent measures to address the country’s debt burden.
“I will immediately engage in extensive consultations across different sectors and political formations and other Kenyans both in public and private with the aim of setting up a broad base government that will assist me in accelerating and expediting the necessary urgent and irreversible implementation the program we have including other radical measures to deal with the burden of debt,” the President said.
The latest cabinet changes are the second since he took office in September 2022. In October 2023, barely a year ago, the President reshuffled the cabinet, making Mudavadi a CS. The other CSs, now sacked, were then reshuffled, with some getting new ministries and mandates.
