{"id":429,"date":"2024-07-24T16:42:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T16:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/?p=429"},"modified":"2024-07-24T16:42:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T16:42:58","slug":"kenyas-president-ruto-appoints-opposition-members-to-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/kenyas-president-ruto-appoints-opposition-members-to-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s President Ruto Appoints Opposition Members To Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kenyan President William Ruto has named key allies of main opposition leader Raila Odinga to his cabinet in a bid to quell growing discontent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He gave\u00a0 the opposition four posts, including the powerful ministries of finance and energy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the first time the opposition has been in government since\u00a0 Odinga took over as prime minister in then president Mwai Kibaki&#8217;s cabinet in 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ruto&#8217;s decision comes as he faces the biggest crisis of his presidency as youths take to the streets to demand his resignation using the hashtag #RutoMustGo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his address to the nation,\u00a0 Ruto said he had held extensive talks to form a &#8220;broad-based government&#8221; to lead a &#8220;transformational agenda&#8221; to make Kenya a &#8220;better, more just and\u00a0 prosperous\u201d nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But protesters rejected the &#8220;broad-based&#8221; government, saying it would continue to make deals only among Kenya&#8217;s political elite.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are four opposition members in the ministries:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Mbadi (finance, referred to as treasury in Kenya)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opiyo Wandayi (energy and petroleum)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hassan Joho (mining and blue economy) and<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wycliffe Oparanya (co-operatives and micro, small and medium enterprises development).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Ruto has appointed a total of 10\u00a0 members to the government, bringing his government to 21. The appointment of Kenya&#8217;s cabinet requires parliamentary approval, which is likely to happen as the two main parties have reached an agreement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ruto assumed office in 2022 after defeating Odinga in a closely contested election.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He promised more economic opportunities for young people, but has lost significant support among them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was forced to abandon the tax hikes after mass protests last month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kenyans complained that they could not pay more taxes as they faced a cost of living crisis and\u00a0 widespread corruption and waste in government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kenyans complained that they could not pay more taxes, when they were facing a cost-of-living crisis, widespread corruption and wastage in government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: BBC News\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan President William Ruto has named key allies of main opposition leader Raila Odinga to his cabinet in a bid to quell growing discontent.\u00a0 He gave\u00a0 the opposition four posts, including the powerful ministries of finance and energy.\u00a0 This is the first time the opposition has been in government since\u00a0 Odinga took over as prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}