Ruto’s Cabinet Reshuffle
Ministries to be renamed and others axed in expected reshuffle to cut costs
By THEDISPATCH.DIGITAL REPORTER
Multiple sources, including a major daily, citing State House sources suggests that the current 22 ministries will be reduced to 15 in the expected government reorganization made possible by the recent Gen Z protests.
Ministrioes will also be renamed and will include the following:
1. Ministry of Defence
2. Ministry of Interior
3. Ministry of Energy
4. Ministry of Health
5. Ministry of Education
6. National Treasury
7. Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation
8. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Community (EAC)
9. Ministry of Labour and Public Service
10. Ministry of Affirmative Action, Youth, and Gender.
According to reports, the reshuffle will also introduce new ministries, like:
1. Ministry for Water, Forest, and Environment
2. Ministry of Tourism, Culture, Youth, and Sports
3. Ministry of Infrastructure, Lands, Housing, Public Works, and Roads
4. Ministry of Economic Planning, MITI, SME Cooperatives, Delivery Unit, ICT XV. Attorney General
The reshuffle will also introduce new ministries:
- Ministry for Water, Forest and Environment
- 2. Ministry of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports,
- Ministry of Infrastructure, Lands, Housing, Public Works, Roads,
- Ministry of Economic Planning, MITI, SME Cooperatives, Delivery Unit, ICT, and
- the Attorney General.
President Ruto held a Cabinet meeting at State House, Nairobi on Tuesday with the meeting being described by one daily as the ‘last supper’ for seven Cabinet secretaries. If this anticipated lineup goes through, 15 principal secretaries will lose their jobs and 43 parastatal chiefs will be affected as a result of their roles being scrapped. Meanwhile, the Treasury is set to profile parastatals with overlapping mandates as some parastatals will be relocated to parent ministries as departments.
