Jomo Kenyatta

John Muchiki Environment Minister and a Kikuyu and Beth Wambui Mugo a former minister and Jomo Kenyatta’s niece held a press conference to defend suspects Uhuru Kenyatta and Francis Muthaura...

Among the contributors was Njenga Karume who has been part of the Kikuyu inner circle since Jomo Kenyatta’s era and has served as Kikuyu MP from Kiambaa defence minister and head of the Gikuyu Embu and Meru Association...

This wording was part of a deal in 1963 between Jomo Kenyatta Kenya’s first President and the then Sultan of Zanzibar by which Zanzibar transferred a coastal strip to Kenya and gave it access to the sea...

Widely suspected of election skulduggery is the shilling billionaire James Njenga Karume founder of the GEMA (Gikuyu Embu and Meru Association) and faithful retainer of presidents since Jomo Kenyatta...

Wamwere a former Nakuru member of parliament and ex-detainee who fled with his family to Norway to escape the Moi regime and had also suffered under President Jomo Kenyatta's rule said he would not bother to testify if Kiplagat retained the chair...

Professor Ali Mazrui Vice-Chancellor of the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology says a foreigner should chair the TJRC and suggests Chief Emeka Anyaoku former Commonwealth Secretary General...

Hyslop Ipu an ineffectual bureaucrat from Coast Province has just been pushed out as Comptroller of State Houses the equivalent of the US Chief of Staff and replaced by the Mount Kenya group’s Professor Nick Wanjohi formerly Vice- Chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and one of the President’s faithful retainers...

The last time Kenya’s three most senior politicians left the country was in April 1964 when Jomo Kenyatta visited the Commonwealth Heads of Goverment Meeting in London for his first (and last) time...

This call made in the presence of Uhuru Kenyatta son of Kenya's founding President Jomo Kenyatta would upset ethnic political calculations...

In the 1970s the Jomo Kenyatta government taking advantage of the Africanisation programme to raise Africans' stake in the economy had encouraged the setting up of investment vehicles such as Heri Ltd...

Some had begun to compare him to Charles Njonjo the veteran of both the Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi presidencies who during 20 years had built a political network...

One top contender for Murage’s job is Nicholas Wanjohi Vice-Chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology who was conspicuous at Kibaki’s hurried swearing in at State House on 30 December...