Fresh from his 31 January victory over Nicholas Kipyator Biwott for the chair of the Kenya African National Union Uhuru Kenyatta will be President Mwai Kibaki's main adversary as leader of the official opposition...
Vol 46 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
Almost as problematic are Kenya's national political alliances and the growing estrangement between President Mwai Kibaki's National Alliance of Kenya and Raila Odinga's Liberal Democratic Party...
The public hearings have lasted over 18 months and cost billions of shillings; the expected prosecutions were billed as one of the biggest corruption trials in Africa and as a crucial test of the anti-corruption credentials of President Mwai Kibaki's government...
three-year loan the Fund approved last year after President Mwai Kibaki - elected on a reformist agenda - promised to crack down on corruption (AC Vol 45 No 16)...
) budget support loan pending developments in the National Alliance Rainbow Coalition government's declared anti-corruption drive particularly its success in the Anglo Leasing affair which has become a litmus test for President Mwai Kibaki's anti-corruption drive...
Vol 45 No 15 |
- KENYA
- BRITAIN
Gluttony Clay's accusations on 12 July in Nairobi that corrupt deals set up by members of President Mwai Kibaki's government amounted to some 15 billion Kenya shillings (US$188 million) broke sharply with traditional British diplomatic euphemisms about lack of transparency and poor governance...
The anti-corruption credentials of President Mwai Kibaki's government are under heavy scrutiny on two counts: holding to account those responsible for the grand corruption of the 1990s and early 2000: the fake export schemes the land grabs the extorters of commissions on contracts and trade; and more urgently to stop those corrupt practices from continuing under the new order...
The business and political sands have shifted since President Mwai Kibaki took office in January 2003...
Some such as UPC MP for Bugweri Abdu Katuntu want it to register as a political party and become an umbrella for opponents of Museveni's ambitions much like Mwai Kibaki's National Rainbow Coalition which unseated President Daniel arap Moi in Kenya...
The next six months will be critical for President Mwai Kibaki and for the future of his National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) government...