- While addressing the Senate on Thursday, Omtatah said it is time the entire government is dissolved.
- On Thursday, the President dissolved his Cabinet saying the affairs of the Ministries will henceforth be coordinated by principal secretaries until a definitive cabinet is appointed.
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Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah has said that the entire government should vacate power.
This is after the President sacked his entire Cabinet save for the Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi.
Ruto said that the decision was made after he had reflected and listened to what Kenyans wanted.
While addressing the Senate on Thursday, Omtatah said it is time the entire government is dissolved.
"I hear the cabinet has been dissolved or stuff like that, that is like putting balm on a wound, what we demand and what I think is that the entire Kenya Kwanza Administration led by President Ruto must vacate power," he said.
He said that Kenyans demanding the President's resignation is not an idle call.
"The ball stops with him and the call the President should go is a call that must be applied. Justice is crying out, our children have died something that has never happened in this country and the President cannot continue sitting in power when the children have died," he said.
According to Omtatah, anything less than that will not avenge the blood lost during the protests.
"If the President values this country, he should do the honourable thing and fall on his sword," he said.
On Thursday, the President dissolved his Cabinet saying the affairs of the Ministries will henceforth be coordinated by principal secretaries until a definitive cabinet is appointed.
The Head of State said the new cabinet will be named after extensive consultations across all sectors.
"The operations of government will continue uninterrupted under the guidance of Principal Secretaries and other relevant officials," he said.
The sacking of the Cabinet comes after weeks of protests led by the young generation in the country.
The protests evolved into a call for accountability in government with both elected and appointed public servants being put on notice over their conduct.
After days of sustained pressure, President Ruto was convinced, to reconsider his stand on the Finance Bill that would have seen Kenyans dig deeper in their pockets to fund government operations.
He rejected the Bill, asking Parliament to withdraw it in its entirety.
The young people later came up with more demands that they wanted to be addressed by the government.
Top of the list posted online and designated “non-negotiable" was the call for the Executive to obey all court orders and scrap the illegal and illegitimate Chief Administrative Secretary position.
Ruto later announced that he had suspended the recruitment of CAS officers.