Her supporters deny that  but it will worry other contenders for the succession  notably Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka and Internal Security Minister George Saitoti...
  Professor George Saitoti  the Internal Security Minister  remains a dark horse...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 49 No 11 | 
            - KENYA
 - ANALYSIS
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     He has also  along with some Christian clergy and some Mount Kenya MPs  suggested that the government should talk to the Kikuyu Mungiki gangs  while Karua and George Saitoti  the Minister of Internal Security  are staunchly against such a dialogue...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     From PNU  Kibaki’s Moi survivors include George Saitoti and Kalonzo Musyoka...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	         ‘Persons Adversely Mentioned’ also included among others the PNU’s George Saitoti  Provincial and Internal Security Minister; Yusuf Haji  Defence; and Noah Wekesa  Forestry and Wildlife...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     We hear the ODM will allow Kibaki to keep Mohamed Yusuf Haji at Defence and George Saitoti at Internal Security  but is insisting on appointing the Justice and Finance Ministers  positions currently occupied by Karua and Amos Kimunya...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Kibaki’s new Internal Security Minister and veteran bruiser George Saitoti (whose own election in Kajiado North is disputed by the ODM) is likely to order the police and paramilitary General Service Unit (GSU) to stand their ground against the protestors at all costs...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Ministers make helpful announcements: Public Service Minister Moses Akaranga has announced a 16% pay rise for civil servants  back-dated six months; and Education Minister George Saitoti ordered teachers to release graduation certificates that had been withheld for non-payment of school fees to 600 000 school leavers...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     It effectively gives an amnesty to all those  like Muite and Education Minister George Saitoti  who are accused of being beneficiaries of the notorious Goldenberg export subsidy scam that cost the Treasury at least $500 million...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     But the race for the party chairmanship pits an articulate Young Turk  Trade Minister Mukhisa Kituyi  against the former Vice-President and Goldenberg protagonist George Saitoti...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Civil service Head Francis Muthaura's defence of Kibaki's reinstatement of Education Minister George Saitoti and Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi - publicly accused  but never charged with corruption - failed to convince the sceptics...