{"id":38520,"date":"2024-07-11T15:55:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T15:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=38520"},"modified":"2024-07-11T15:55:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T15:55:47","slug":"president-ruto-dissolves-kenyan-cabinet-amid-ongoing-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/11\/president-ruto-dissolves-kenyan-cabinet-amid-ongoing-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ruto Dissolves Kenyan Cabinet Amid Ongoing Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President William Ruto of Kenya has dissolved his cabinet with immediate effect, responding to ongoing protests demanding his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cabinet reshuffle excludes the Office of the Vice President and the Prime Cabinet Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have decided to dismiss with immediate effect all the cabinet secretaries and the Attorney General of the cabinet of Kenya, except the prime cabinet secretary and cabinet secretary for diaspora affairs. The office of the vice president is not affected in any way,\u201d Ruto announced during a televised address on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ruto pledged to engage in extensive consultations with various sectors and political groups to establish a &#8220;broad-based&#8221; government. His aim is to address the country&#8217;s debt burden, increase domestic resources, eliminate government waste and corruption, and expand job opportunities for the youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President William Ruto of Kenya has dissolved his cabinet with immediate effect, responding to ongoing protests demanding his resignation. &nbsp; The cabinet reshuffle excludes the Office of the Vice President and the Prime Cabinet Secretary. &nbsp; \u201cI have decided to dismiss with immediate effect all the cabinet secretaries and the Attorney General of the cabinet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":38521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38522,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38520\/revisions\/38522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}