While Musalia Mudavadi was Finance Minister Nyachae attacked him furiously for ‘being the white man's boy' and for doing exactly what Nyachae is now doing with the IMF/World Bank staff in Nairobi...
The well liked ex-Finance Minister Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi was demoted to Agriculture some believe for taking the IMF's anti-graft strictures too seriously...
Musalia Mudavadi; backed by his Maragoli/Luhya people but unable to attract the Bukusu Luhya who back Ford-Kenya's Wamalwa Kijana; well-regarded by donors which doesn't bring political popularity; his hard pro-Moi campaign in Western Province brought him 43 per cent of the vote...
Simeon Nyachae' s promotion to Finance Minister and his predecessor Musalia Mudavadi's demotion to Agriculture Minister have been accompanied by a thorough-going reorganisation of senior civil servants in the Treasury...
Presidential fiatAlready Finance Minister Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi is battling to balance the books as bills incurred by presidential fiat begin to roll in...
One problem with the negotiations according to Washington Africa hands is that (with the exception of Finance Minister Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi and Central Bank Governor Micah Cheserem) the Nairobi government has little grasp of the new and tougher IMF stance against institutionalised corruption...
In the latest confrontation on 19 June and as part of their campaign for constitutional change opposition members of parliament disrupted Finance Minister Musalia Mudavadi's budget reading...
Within eight weeks Finance Minister Musalia Mudavadi must produce a budget...
Luhya are the next largest group to the Kikuyu and are a congregation of related but separate ethnic groups; the largest of whom are Bukusu (Wamalwa's pro-opposition ethnic sub-group) and Maragoli (Musalia Mudavadi's pro-KANU sub-group)...
In the process the KANU reformists led by former Agriculture Minister Simeon Nyachae and Finance Minister Musalia Mudavadi will be cut down to size...
The Bank and Fund argue that the government's reform programme is still on track thanks largely to the commitment shown by Finance Minister Musalia Mudavadi (Luhya/Maragoli) and Central Bank Governor Micah Cheserem (Kalenjin/Marakwet)...