NAIROBI: With immediate effect, Kenyan President William Ruto has fired 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.
The Kenyan leader revealed that he had come to this decision “upon reflection, listening keenly to what the people of Kenya have said and after a holistic appraisal of the performance of the 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,” he said.
Furthermore, President William Ruto said that, for the time being, he should as soon as possible indulge in wide consultations across different sectors and political formations. This will be with the aim of setting up a “broad-based government” and one that is “lean, inexpensive, effective and efficient.”
Ruto went ahead to promise to unveil a new team that will help 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.”
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This follows the recent mass protests in the country by the majority youths protesting against the proposed 2024 Finance Bill that was later deposed by the President.
