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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The new Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs  Martha Karua  then announced  in the company of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Director Joseph Kamau and Aaron Ringera  head of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission  that prosecution of those implicated in past corruption and human rights allegations would be intensified...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     As he pleaded with her to join the government  the DP MP from central Kirinyaga  Martha Karua  publicly walked out on the President  brandishing a clenched fist and to popular acclaim; though the fist is her party's symbol  it would have been unthinkable to shake it in the President's face a few years ago...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The opposition delegates to the IPPG included MPs who either had prior KANU contacts or were disenchanted with the NCEC: Martin Shikuku (Ford-Asili)  Achieng Oneko (Ford- Kenya)  Kennedy Kiliku  Martha Karua and Kiraitu Murungi (Democratic Party) and Kijana Wamalwa...