- “I have decided to dismiss with immediate effect all cabinet secretaries and attorney general of the Cabinet of Kenya except the Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs.”
- He added that with the CS out of office, ministry accounting officers among other officials will now take charge of operations.
President William Ruto has made the unprecedented decision to dissolve his Cabinet, effectively terminating the positions of all Cabinet Secretaries and the Attorney General, with immediate effect. However, Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi remains unaffected by this decision.
“I have decided to dismiss with immediate effect all cabinet secretaries and attorney general of the Cabinet of Kenya except the Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs,” Ruto declared. “Additionally, the office of the Deputy President will not be impacted.”
President Ruto has announced that the Principal Secretaries will oversee the ministries’ operations until a new cabinet is appointed. He emphasized that the continuity of government operations will be maintained under their guidance.
The Head of State indicated that the formation of the new cabinet will follow extensive consultations across various sectors and political formations. “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 and slay the dragon of corruption consequently making the government lean, inexpensive, effective and efficient,” Ruto said.
He noted that with the Cabinet Secretaries out of office, ministry accounting officers and other officials will now take charge of operations to ensure uninterrupted government functions.
President Ruto also mentioned that he will be announcing additional measures in due course. The dismissed Cabinet Secretaries had been in office for less than two years, following a reshuffle in October 2023 that impacted at least eight ministries.
