Kenya’s President William Ruto has fired all Cabinet Secretaries in response to the disaffection of the public led by Generation Zoomers commonly known as Gen Z.
The question is, was he saving the cabinet to save his skin? Gen Z has maintained that he is the problem and he has to get out.
The challenge is that Gen Z does not have a contingency plan to take over the country should Ruto and his cabinet leave.
Also sacked is Attorney General, Justin Muturi. Only Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, and the Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary, is remaining.
“Upon reflection, listening keenly to what the people of Kenya have said and after a holistic appraisal of the performance of my Cabinet and its achievements and challenges, I have, in line with the powers given to me by Article 152(1) and 152(5)(b) of the Constitution and Section 12 of the Office of the Attorney-General Act, decided to dismiss with immediate effect all the Cabinet Secretaries and the Attorney-General from the Cabinet of the Republic of Kenya except the Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs,” said President Ruto in televised announced.
Ruto has irked the youth by pandering to the West, Implementing the dictates of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at a time when countries in West Africa like Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso are leading the continent from neocolonialism.
When he won the 2022 elections—of which opponents aver that there was interference from the Americans and the British—he brought into cabinet very questionable charters.
One of them is the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture who was singled out for giving the country fake fertilizers but Ruto mobilized his MPs—some of them bought from the opposition—to shoot down his impeachment in parliament.
Ruto has been known to keep bad company. The question in the minds of Kenyans is whether he can sack the people who financed his election and survive.
The jury is still out even as he reaches out to his opponent and leader of the opposition, Raila Odinga to save his face.
There are talks that Ruto is thinking of a government on national unity to enable him to finish his five-year term. But Gen Zs will have none of it.
The youth movement in Kenya has inspired other suppressed Africans like in Uganda, Ghana, and Nigeria among others to think of rising up. At scrutiny are the IMF and the World Bank regarding their policies in Africa and the Global South in general.
