{"id":4159,"date":"2024-07-11T16:08:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T16:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/restore\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2024-07-11T16:08:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T16:08:50","slug":"kenyas-president-sacks-ministers-after-anti-tax-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/kenyas-president-sacks-ministers-after-anti-tax-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s President Sacks Ministers After Anti-tax Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President William Ruto of Kenya has announced the dismissal of ministers in his cabinet, including the attorney-general with \u201cimmediate effect\u201d, following the recent deadly protests which led to the withdrawal of an unpopular tax bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ruto said he made the move after &#8220;reflection, listening to Kenyans, and after holistic appraisal of my cabinet&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two cabinet members who were not affected by the president&#8217;s action are the deputy president, who cannot be legally sacked and the prime cabinet secretary who also doubles as the foreign affairs minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ruto hinted he will now make wide consultations to form a broad-based government, but did not say when.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said the dissolution of his cabinet would not affect government operations as the running of government would continue under the supervision of senior civil servants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three of the sacked ministers reportedly left their roles as members of Parliament to join Ruto\u2019s cabinet barely two years after he became president.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: BBC News\u00a0<\/b><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4161\" src=\"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ruto-cabinet-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ruto-cabinet-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ruto-cabinet-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ruto-cabinet-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ruto-cabinet-1170x780.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ruto-cabinet-585x390.jpg 585w, https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ruto-cabinet-263x175.jpg 263w, https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ruto-cabinet-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ruto-cabinet.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President William Ruto of Kenya has announced the dismissal of ministers in his cabinet, including the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":4160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}