Ruto faces daunting task of forming new Cabinet amid growing pressure

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Among the Chinese heritage, there is a proverb that says a crisis is an opportunity to ride a dangerous wind. President John F. Kennedy once said that the word crisis is composed of two characters: one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

The foregoing quotes would be quite relevant and practical to President Ruto as he navigates through a legitimacy test that he finds himself in. The decision to dismiss all his Cabinet Secretaries, except the CS for Foreign Affairs, rewinds the clock of history to November 23, 2005. On that day, President Mwai Kibaki dissolved his entire Cabinet after suffering a humiliating defeat in a referendum that sought to enact the current Constitution.