Fred Okengo Matiang'i

After downgrading Ruto's security detail last month by withdrawing elite General Service Unit (GSU) officers guarding Ruto's government and private residences Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi' went on the offensive pointing out that 257 officers are assigned to Ruto's various details making him the most protected second-in-command in Kenya's history...

On 24 March Interior Minister Fred Matiang'i gave the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 14 days to draw up a plan to close the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps saying there was no more room for negotiations...

Outside the Treasury top securocrats such as Interior Minister Fred Matiang'i his principal secretary Karanja Kibicho and State House advisor Ruth Kagia urge the president on in accomplishing a legacy of big projects and the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI)...

His closest policy advisors like Karanja Kibicho Fred Matiangi Ruth Kagia Martin Kimani and Anne Waiguru flatter him with predictions that there will be time and resources to achieve the objectives of the Big Four provided the government disregards the 'neo-liberal' caution of the IMF and the World Bank...

Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i who has enjoyed rapid and high-profile promotions under Kenyatta has been touted by Murathe and others as a potential candidate (AC Vol 60 No 24 Building shaky bridges)...

Soon after the Kenyan Security Minister Fred Matiang'i was dispatched to Mogadishu with a message for Farmajo followed by a brief stop in Addis Ababa where he met the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed...

It brought together the stridently anti-Ruto Minister for Interior Fred Matiang'i and his permanent secretary Karanja Kibicho Mombasa governor Ali Hassan Joho and fiery anti-Ruto Nairobi MP Maina Kamanda in the guise of fundraising for a local school...

In the belief that the situation could be turned around by a new team that excludes Ruto the President appointed new people to implement his development agenda at the end of January chaired by his 'fixer' Interior Minister Fred Matiangi...

He asked the powerful Ministry of Interior's Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi under whom the County Commissioner's office falls to come before his sub-committee...

There were also clashes in Nairobi Kisumu and Mombasa as protesters defied a ban on demonstrations introduced by Interior Minister Fred Matiang'i on 11 October...