Boni Khalwale Advises William Ruto to Dissolve Cabinet, Fire Prime CS and Advisors: “Reconstitute”

• Pressure continues to mount pressure on President William Ruto to overhaul his Cabinet as an austerity measure
• Ruto, while rejecting the Finance Bill 2024, sanctioned the freezing of government spending and budget cuts to cover for the revenues the condemned bill
• While deliberating on the state of the nation on Wednesday, senators in one accord counselled Ruto to scale down his Cabinet and scrap unconstitutional offices that burden the taxpayer

Kai Eli, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings more than three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.

Nairobi: Kenyan Senators want President William Ruto to scale down his Cabinet as a measure of austerity.

The lawmakers in the Upper House were deliberating on a motion moved by Majority Leader Aaron Cheruiyot on the recent anti-finance bill protests.

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Irrespective of their political leanings, the senators dedicated the session on Wednesday, July 3, to spotlight the significance of the protests and the need for the president to relook into his style of leadership.

Kakamega senator Boni Khalwale observed that the cash crunch would be the undoing for Ruto and his administration, given that the citizenry id keen to oppose any move to raise taxes in an effort to cover the budget shortfalls.

To deal with the issue, the senator counselled the president to consider reducing staffers in the National Executive and free the money meant for salaries to other important government functions.

Khalwale asked Ruto to reconstitute the Cabinet, annul unconstitutional offices and do away with advisors he suggested are not necessary for the running of government

“Things to do: Mr president, dissolve Cabinet, reconstitute it, disband offices outside the constitution, including CASs, Prime CS, and offices of the First and Second Lady because they are not in the constitution. Also, advisors, if they are useful, then what David Ndii is doing is not advice but misadvice,” he said.

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Makueni senator Enock Wambua asked the president to reduce the number of Cabinet Secretaries to 14 from the current 21.

He also asked the president to amalgamate redundant state departments and agencies to narrow the spending in the stand-alone offices.

Source: TUKO.co.ke