Principal Secretaries To Run Gov’t Following Dissolution Of Cabinet – President Ruto
President William Ruto has announced that Principal Secretaries (PSs) will oversee daily government operations following the dissolution of the Cabinet on Thursday. In his address to the nation from State House, Nairobi, President Ruto emphasized that government functions would continue without interruption under the guidance of PSs and other relevant officials, even though all Cabinet members, except Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and Prime Cabinet Secretary and Foreign Affairs CS Musalia Mudavadi, have been dismissed.
“During this process, the operations of government will continue uninterrupted under the guidance of PS and other relevant officials. I will be announcing additional measures and steps in due course,” President Ruto stated.
President Ruto explained that he plans to engage in extensive consultations with various stakeholders and the public to form a new, broad-based government. This process aims to facilitate the swift implementation of critical programs to address national challenges, such as debt burden, domestic resource mobilization, job creation, elimination of wastage, and corruption.
“I will immediately engage in extensive consultations across different sectors and political formations and other Kenyans both in public and private with the aim of setting up a broad base government that will assist me in accelerating and expediting the necessary and irreversible implementation of the program that we have,” Ruto said. “This includes other radical measures and programmes, to deal with the burden of debt, to explore raising domestic resources and revenues, expanding job opportunities, eliminating wastage and unnecessary duplication, over multiplicity of government agencies and slaying the dragon of corruption and consequently making the government of Kenya lean, inexpensive, effective and efficient.”
Ruto’s move is reminiscent of the action taken by the late former President Mwai Kibaki in November 2005, when he disbanded his entire Cabinet following a defeat in the government-supported referendum. Kibaki stated at the time, “Following the results of the Referendum, it has become necessary for me, as the President of the Republic, to reorganise my Government to make it more cohesive and better able to serve the people of Kenya.”
Kibaki subsequently announced a new Cabinet lineup two weeks later. President Ruto has not yet specified when he will announce his new Cabinet.
Principal Secretaries To Run Gov’t Following Dissolution Of Cabinet – President Ruto
