President William Ruto is currently overseeing the swearing-in of all the 19 Cabinet Secretaries (CS) approved by the Members of Parliament on Wednesday, August 7, 2024, despite the ongoing Nane Nane march.
The event is currently ongoing at State House, Nairobi and all the sworn-in CS will be part of Ruto’s broad-based cabinet.
The National Assembly rejected Gender CS nominee Stella Lang’at.
Broad-based cabinet
Ruto, in his new resolve after firing his entire Cabinet, expressed his keenness to constitute a broad-based executive that would see key figures from the opposition make entry into the government.
On July 19, 2024, disclosed that he would be forming a broad-based cabinet that would help his administration in driving the urgently needed transformation in the country.
“Consequently, I have started the process of forming a new, broad-based cabinet to assist me in driving the urgently needed and irreversible transformation of our country,” Ruto said.
He has included four members of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) to h**d c******l dockets in the broad-based cabinet. This is Ruto’s second cabinet two years into his election as Kenya’s fifth president.
Gen Z protests
A section of Kenyan youths has vowed to proceed with the much-hyped Nane Nane protests.
The protesters have termed it as their final attempt to liberate the country from the claws of the Kenya Kwanza regime.
Led by the revolutionary artiste Kasmuel McOure, during a press address in Nairobi on August 7, they declared that the August 8th mega-protest, now christened ‘Nane Nane,’ will be the mother of all demonstrations in recent times.
“Tomorrow is a forward march in our annals of history, Nane Nane is going to be our final day in the streets. We want to live in a country that gives us land; we want to live in a country that educates us; we want to live in a country where children who will not die from natural diseases will go to the streets because the Kenya Kwanza regime has taken everything we had. We have elucidated very well what our demands have been,” McOure said.
The anti-government demonstrators have been picketing against what they describe as the poor governance by the Kenya Kwanza regime and the high cost of living.
The ongoing demos have seen Ruto dissolve his Cabinet and re-nominate many of the members back in a new team that comprises opposition politicians.
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