President William Ruto has fired his entire cabinet, including the Attorney General, days after protests by Gen Z against his government.
In a televised address from State House, Nairobi, on Tuesday, Dr. Ruto said he made the decision after “listening to Kenyans, and a holistic appraisal of cabinet.”
However, Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi will remain in office.
“I have decided to dismiss with immediate effect all cabinet secretaries and the Attorney General of the Cabinet of Kenya, except the Prime Cabinet Secretary and the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs,” Dr. Ruto said.
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The president stated that Principal Secretaries will now coordinate the affairs of their respective ministries until a new cabinet is appointed.
Dr Ruto said he will engage other political stakeholders to set up his cabinet.
“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, eliminate wastage and unnecessary duplication of a multiplicity of government agencies,” he said.
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The Nairobi Law Monthly understands that Dr. Ruto is considering forming a ‘government of national unity,’ which would include opposition figures, in an effort to resolve a political crisis sparked by Gen Zs—people born during the late 1990s and early 2000s—who are demanding changes in government.
The protests, which started as an online outpouring of anger over nearly $2.7 billion in proposed tax hikes in a finance bill last month, grew into a nationwide movement against corruption and misgovernance, and have become the most serious crisis of Ruto’s nearly two-year-old presidency.
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