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Odinga has been wooing county governors in Central Province with some success winning over Nyandarua's Francis Kimemia Meru's Kiraitu Murungi and Kiambu's James Nyoro...
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Raila's campaign although yet to be formally launched is a governor-heavy entourage including from Central province of Kikuyu and Meru voters: Nyandarua's Francis Kimemia Meru's Kiraitu Murungi Kiambu's James Nyoro and governors Lee Kinyanjui and Ndiritu Muriithi from Nakuru and Laikipia...
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Among those who attended the Mount Kenya Foundation event in late September was Nyandarua governor Francis Thuita Kimemia...
The most prominent casualties among the securocracy include Francis Kimemia (AC Vol 55 No 5 Jubilee lays into America too)...
Yet the influence of the likes of former civil service head Francis Kimemia remains undiminished (AC Vol 55 No 5 Warning shot or loose cannon...
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Cabinet Secretary Francis Kimemia declared that instead of being the product of grassroots discontent the protests were the result of attempts by the United States to destabilise the government...
Some in Nairobi speculate that when Francis Kimemia accused the United States Agency for International Development of attempting to destabilise the government he was speaking out of turn...
Then one day later an immigration officer at the airport prevented him from leaving for a meeting in Tanzania saying that he had not been ‘cleared’ by Francis Kimemia the Permanent Secretary and Head of the Public Service...
This received official endorsement when the new civil service head Francis Kimemia directed that schools stay shut...
The securocrats they say – including Kibaki’s allies National Security Intelligence Service Director Michael Gichangi and acting Civil Service head Francis Kimemia – are using this latest wave of violence to slow down constitutional reform and maintain the status quo...