Kithure Kindiki the interior cabinet secretary during the protests has now been elevated to the deputy presidency following the impeachment of Rigathi Gachagua (AC Vol 65 No 22 Ruto's impeachment of his Deputy starts to backfire)...
Within hours President Ruto announced that Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki would be the new Deputy President...
As the most senior Kikuyu minister in Ruto's government Kithure Kindiki is the obvious successor as deputy president – securing a job that many expected him to be given ahead of the 2022 elections...
Despite being an unexpected choice as Ruto's running mate over Kithure Kindiki who is now the interior cabinet secretary Gachagua helped bring the vote in...
On 12 September a group of 48 MPs from the region which is the heartland of the Gikuyu community stated that they now regarded Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki as their link to Ruto's government...
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Ruku's private member's bill will sit alongside the government's own planned revisions to the Public Order Act which were set out by interior minister Kithure Kindiki during the vetting process by MPs on 1 August...
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The only sop to the protestors was that Aden Duale was demoted from defence to forestry minister though Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki who many held culpable alongside Duale for the abduction and killing of scores of protestors and organisers stays in post...
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President William Ruto's decision last week to bring back six of the senior ministers he had fired particularly Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki who many hold as culpable for the abduction and killing of scores of protestors and organisers has marked a hardening in resolve by State House (AC Vol 65 No 15 Ruto struggles to retain control)...
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On 3 July Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki blamed the violence on ‘hordes of marauding criminal gangs' and said there was an attempt to ‘politicise crime'...
During the Supreme Court case that eventually decided the election in Ruto's favour Ogolla was named by Ruto's lawyer Kithure Kindiki as being one of a group of four from the National Security Advisory Committee (NSAC) who had been to the Bomas Centre on 15 August where the votes were being tallied and verified...