FWAMBA: What Ruto's Cabinet reshuffle means ahead of 2027
In the end, this reshuffle is more than just a change in leadership.
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President William Ruto now says that he will change Cabinet Secretaries whenever he deems it necessary.
Speaking during a media interview with Kikuyu TV stations ahead of his weeklong tour of the Mt Kenya region, Ruto said it is his prerogative.
He insisted that the buck stops with him and that he will be answerable to what they do while serving in the different Cabinet portfolios.
The President said that even his predecessors changed Cabinet Secretaries when it was necessary and that he will work with CSs who will help him answer to Kenyans.
“Kibaki changed Ministers when it was necessary; Uhuru changed Ministers when it was necessary. When it is necessary, I will change Ministers (Cabinet Secretaries) because it is my prerogative and ultimately, whatever the CS are doing, I’ll be asked," Ruto said on March 31, 2025.
“The buck stops with me ultimately. That is why I am going to work with people who ultimately are going to help me answer the final question to the people of Kenya."
Since the beginning of his term in 2022, President Ruto has changed Cabinet ministers and reshuffled some at least four times.
In July 2023, he dismissed his entire Cabinet save for Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi.
In the reconstituted Cabinet, Ruto included at least five leaders from within the Orange Democratic Movement party.
He would later on do a mini-reshuffle affecting just a few Cabinet portfolios, and that has been ongoing since.
In January 2025, William Kabogo and Mutahi Kagwe joined the Cabinet after the dismissal of Margaret Ndung’u and Andrew Karanja effectively replacing them as Agriculture and ICT CSs.
In the latest changes to Cabinet, Justin Muturi was dismissed as Public Service CS and Mbeere North MP Geoffrey Ruku was nominated to take his place.
He awaits vetting by the National Assembly.
At one time, during the signing of performance contracts at State House, Nairobi, the President decried incompetence among CSs.
He said some of them did not know what the Ministries they held were in charge of.
Ruto has however, been appointing the dismissed CSs and PSs to other roles, including ambassadorial jobs.
