With immediate effect, President William Ruto has dismissed the Attorney General and all Cabinet Secretaries.
President Ruto stated that the positions of Prime Cabinet Secretary and Deputy President are the only ones that will remain unaffected when speaking to the nation from State House in Nairobi on Thursday afternoon.
President Ruto stated that he had decided to dissolve his Cabinet “after meticulous deliberation, listening keenly to what the people of Kenya have said, and a comprehensive assessment of the cabinet’s performance, 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 Ruto.
The head of state announced that he will begin extensive talks immediately with various political forms and sectors in order to establish a “broad-based government” that is also “lean, inexpensive, effective, and efficient.”
He pledged to put together a fresh team to help him with “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.”
