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Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta

Date of Birth: 26 October 1961


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Mungiki’s new man

MOI MEETS MUNGIKI In the 2002 election Mungiki generally backed Moi’s Kenya African National Union (KANU) candidate Uhuru Kenyatta for the presidency...

They also say he was at meetings in Nairobi along with Uhuru Kenyatta and others where the funding and organisation of the violence took place...


The battle for the basic law

Some see a link between the No camp and the Kikuyu-Kalenjin-Kamba ethnic alliance crafted by Uhuru Kenyatta Ruto and Vice-President Musyoka...


Yes, No and in between

Many of his PNU allies are reluctant supporters: Environment and Mineral Resources Minister John Michuki an old friend who helped him into power; Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka; Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta; and ‘political activist’ Mary Wambui (whose claim that she was Kibaki’s second wife was vigorously denied by State House)...


Bombing the campaign

Although the impasse was resolved by Prime Minister Raila Odinga the Treasury’s action was blamed on Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta who is wary of Odinga’s dominance in the Yes campaign...


The rise of the watermelons

Increasingly nervous that this may be so the PNU succession front-runners Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka (55) and Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta (49) are taking back seats in the campaign...

Both have fallen out with Odinga at different points over the past three years and together with Uhuru Kenyatta another Moi protégé they have found common cause in opposing Odinga who is Luo...

When Uhuru Kenyatta as Finance Minister refused to release funds for countrywide civic education it was interpreted as another attempt to frustrate the march towards a new constitution...


A dangerous compromise

This new agreement among the politicians owes much to Ruto's rapprochement with his former colleague KANU Chairman Uhuru Kenyatta who is likely to inherit Kibaki's Mount Kenya support base...

Ruto has turned to his old friends particularly Uhuru Kenyatta with whom he cut his political teeth under Moi...


Maize splits the Grand Coalition

With suspiciously fortuitous timing for Kibaki and his allies a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) report on the 2008 maize scandal that had been languishing in the office of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta since December 2009 was suddenly leaked...

Uhuru Kenyatta aligned himself with Ruto and Kalonzo Musyoka in what is being called a Kikuyu Kalenjin and Kamba or ‘KKK’ alliance...


An American agreement

Five of those in Naivasha – Martha Karua (National Alliance Rainbow Coalition of Kenya) Uhuru Kenyatta (PNU) William Ruto (ODM) and Raila Odinga (ODM) and Moses Wetang’ula (PNU) – want to run for president in 2012...


Who is heading for the Hague?

They include Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Uhuru Kenyatta and Agriculture Minister William Ruto...

State House insiders insist that Kibaki would not tolerate the arraignment of Uhuru Kenyatta at the Hague; Uhuru’s mother Mama Ngina Kenyatta is still highly influential with the Kibakis...

Kibaki is Kikuyu (Central Province) Odinga is Luo (Nyanza Province West Kenya) Vice-President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka is Kamba (ethnic cousins of the Kikuyu Eastern Province) Uhuru Kenyatta is Kikuyu (Central) and Deputy Prime Minister and Local Government Minister Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi is Luhya (Western)...

At the first constitutional referendum in 2005 the victorious ‘Nos’ were led by Odinga Musyoka and Uhuru Kenyatta...


Drought and politics

The stimulus package introduced by Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta has not produced the promised jobs nor cut consumer prices...


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