President William Ruto announced the dissolution of his cabinet, sending all the cabinet secretaries and the attorney general home except Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and Prime CS Musalia Mudavadi.
"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 said.
"And of course, the office of the Deputy President is not affected in any way."
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During an anticipated press brief at the state house, the president said that the principal secretaries would perform all the functions of the cabinet secretaries until a new cabinet was in place after consultations with various stakeholders.
"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 urgent and irreversible implementation the program we have including other radical measures to deal with the burden of debt," Ruto said.
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