Kibaki's closest advisors - the Muthaiga Golf Club crowd such as James Njenga Karume and George Muhoho and Ministers such as John Michuki and Martha Karua - were advising him to stand firm...
Justice Minister Martha Karua who leads Kibaki's negotiating team sent a characteristically abrasive letter to Annan accusing him of misrepresenting what had been said at the talks and saying that her team was 'alarmed' at the idea of a coalition government 'which position has not been discussed or agreed upon'...
Kabando wa Kabando (aka Godfrey Kariuki Mwangi) says that his fellow pro-Kibaki MP George Thuo has admitted receiving a letter from the US Embassy warning of a visa ban as has the owner of a nightclub which has hosted fundraisers attended by luminaries such as Justice Minister Martha Karua and Local Government Minister Kenyatta...
Whispers of suspicionJustice Minister Martha Karua and other pro-Kibaki hardliners have accused the opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) of perpetrating genocide a clear exaggeration...
Two of them Justice Minister Martha Karua and Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi have declared an interest in the presidency in 2012 when the next election comes round...
On 6 March Kenya's Constitutional Affairs Minister Martha Karua complained of the hurdles her country faces in trying to recover more than US$2 bn...
Kibaki's presidential campaign will be fronted by the younger ministers recruited from all over Kenya to blunt the Kikuyu-partisanship charge: Kituyi (Interim NARC-Kenya Chairman Luhya); Raphael Tuju (Foreign Minister Luo); Danson Mungatana (Assistant Justice Minister Pokomo); John Mutua Katuku (Water Development Minister Kamba); Kivutha Kibwana (Lands Minister Kamba); Gideon Konchellah (Immigration Minister Maasai); Beth Wambui Mugo (Assistant Education Minister Kikuyu and Kenyatta's niece); and Martha Karua (Justice Minister Kikuyu)...
His newer generation of ministers have failed to shine: Finance Minister Amos Kimunya badly mishandled the charges of money laundering at Charterhouse Bank and has yet to impress the World Bank and International Monetary Fund; Justice Minister Martha Karua's attacks on corruption are not taken seriously as the government investigations into the Anglo-Leasing (AC Vol 47 No 21) and Goldenberg sagas have petered out; and Foreign Minister Raphael Tuju appears ambivalent about Kenya's interests in the growing crises in Somalia and Sudan...
Wako attack Wako who has been under heavy attack from Justice Minister Martha Karua for several weeks handed back the KACC contract investigation files on six grounds pointing to serious gaps and deficiencies in the evidence produced by investigators...
Amos Kimunya was promoted from Lands to Finance Martha Karua from the backwater of Water Resources to Justice...
