Ruto's equally embattled deputy Rigathi Gachagua who has spent recent weeks attempting to cosy up to former President Uhuru Kenyatta to shore up support in the Mount Kenya region may be looking for a new party...
Though neither of these parastatals are obvious homes for military top brass these posts were also given to military appointees by Ruto's predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta (AC Vol 62 No 22 Kenyatta mulls the high cost of the handshake)...
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The precedent was set when the Nairobi Metropolitan Services office was used by former President Uhuru Kenyatta to take over health transport public works and utilities after Sakaja's predecessor Mike Sonko became embroiled in impeachment and criminal cases (AC Vol 61 No 10 A clumsy coup)...
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Following Ruto's narrow and controversial win over Azimio la Umoja leader Raila Odinga Ogolla a Luo like Odinga was marked out as one of the securocrats promoted by Ruto's predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta who would quickly be shown the door (AC Vol 63 No 18 Kenyatta's securocrats cast into the cold)...
Ruto has now cleared out almost all remnants of the Uhuru Kenyatta presidency...
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In a bid to minimise diplomatic embarrassment Ruto nimbly moved Mathuki after it became clear that the impeachment proceedings against him were moving quickly announcing that Mathuki who was picked by Ruto's predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta would become the new ambassador to Russia as part of a series of new diplomatic appointments...
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Some in Azimio believe that Odinga's AU campaign which relies on the government's diplomatic machine amounts to a 'handshake mark 2' a reference to the deal between Odinga and Ruto's predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta that was supposed to pave the way for Odinga not Ruto to win in August 2022...
The collapse of the Jubilee party formed by Uhuru Kenyatta and Ruto has left the Kikuyu without a voice...
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Mathuki was picked for the EAC job by former President Uhuru Kenyatta but he is a close ally of Ruto's which explains why he has been given one of the top embassies albeit one which carries far less political influence (AC Vol 62 No 7 How not to win friends)...
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Vol 65 No 5 |
- AFRICAN UNION
When Ruto's predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta met with President Samia on 21 February rumours swirled in Nairobi that Kenyatta who backed Odinga's presidential bid in 2022 would break the pro-Odinga consensus and back Kikwete...
One of the committee's main recommendations was to revive an idea in the Building Bridges Initiative set up by Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta which was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; that of creating an official Leader of the Opposition office after the 2027 elections...
And in 2021 and 2022 it struck down the ambitious constitutional reform known as the Building Bridges Initiative that was designed by former President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga as part of the latter's failed bid for the presidency (AC Vol 62 No 17 The bridge collapses)...