Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Wednesday sacked his entire cabinet and their assistants, after the people of the east African country rejected a proposed draft constitution in a referendum.
"Following the results of the referendum, it has become necessary for me, as the president of the republic, to re-organise my government to make it more cohesive and better able to serve the people of Kenya," Kibaki said in a nationally televised speech.
Kibaki, who staunchly supported the ratification of a constitution that was rejected primarily on the basis of entrenching a powerful presidency, said he would name replacements within two weeks.
The announcement comes on the heels of Monday's plebiscite, in which nearly 60 percent of Kenyans rejected the first change to the country's charter since independence in 1963.