Thursday, July 11, 2024 - President William Ruto of Kenya has dissolved his cabinet with immediate effect in what is a move to appease protesters who spent two weeks asking for an end to his administration.
His plans to raise revenues through tax
raises have suffered setbacks even as the Kenyan Revenue Authority missed its
tax targets for 2023.
“I have
decided to dismiss with immediate effect all the cabinet secretaries and the
Attorney General of the cabinet of Kenya, except the prime cabinet secretary
and cabinet secretary for diaspora affairs. The office of the vice president is
not affected in any way,” Ruto said in a televised address on Thursday.
On Tuesday, the president reached out
to opposition leader Raila Odinga to help quell the tensions gripping the
country for a month. The current crisis started after the ruling Kenya Kwanza
coalition failed to heed calls to reject the controversial 2024 Finance Bill,
which was finally withdrawn on June 25 after demonstrators overran parliament.
What started as protests against new
taxes on bread, cars, diapers, and sanitary towels, among other items,
catapulted into calls for Ruto to resign, with Kenyans accusing his government
of corruption, extra-judicial killings, abductions, and incompetence.
On Thursday, July 11, Ruto announced that
all cabinets were dissolved except the Cabinet secretary and office of foreign
affairs and Deputy president.
President Ruto of Kenya 🇰🇪 has dissolved his cabinet. Save for the Prime Cabinet Secretary. Wow pic.twitter.com/6T9wIjmDxh
— Rotus (@Rotankwot) July 11, 2024
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