By Tajeu Shadrack Nkapapa
President William Ruto has assigned the Principal Secretaries to run the daily government operations in absentia of the fired Cabinet Secretaries.
In a Press briefing on Thursday 11th July, 2024 at State House, Nairobi the President announced that the government ministries will continue with daily duties with the supervision of the Principal Secretaries.
“During this process, the operations of government will continue uninterrupted under the guidance of Principal Secretaries and other relevant officials. I will be announcing additional measures and steps in due course,” President Ruto said.
However, the President also fired the Attorney General and only the Office of the Deputy President and the Office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary was not affected.
He further said that he will have discussions with Kenyans and other key stakeholders in the formation of the next Cabinet.
“I will immediately engage in extensive consultations across different sectors and political formations and other Kenyans both public and private to set up a broad-based government that will assist me in accelerating and expediting the necessary urgent and irreversible implementation of the program that we have to deal with the burden of debt, raising domestic resources, expanding job opportunities, eliminate wastage and slay the dragon of corruption” he added.
President Ruto’s step of dissolving the entire cabinet takes Kenyans back 19 years ago when then President Emilio Mwai Kibaki sacked the cabinet on November, 23rd 2005 after his government was defeated in the 2005 referendum.
Former President Mwai Kibaki was in a similar situation, and he had to re-organize his government to be more effective.
He declared all the offices of the Ministers and all Assistant Ministers to remain vacant whereby he announced the next cabinet ministers on the second week of December 2005.