David Murathe a close ally of the former president has said that Kenyatta had his own designs on the AU job before Odinga expressed his interest and had already secured support from Ethiopia South Sudan Rwanda Uganda Congo-Kinshasa and Tanzania...

At the Azimio La Umoja convention Jubilee party vice chair David Murathe a close ally of Kenyatta stated that he and other Kikuyu Odinga supporters had the responsibility to undo the propaganda that tainted Odinga's image in the region at the last three elections...

But the merger is taking time and the committee responsible for the task – under Kenyatta loyalists David Murathe and Raphael Tuju – is internally divided and devoid of a strategy...

Kenyatta's top political strategist David Murathe is fighting allegations in Parliament's Public Investment Committee of underwriting a bank guarantee for a briefcase company that bid to provide Covid-19 materials worth 4 billion shillings ($37m) to the government last year; he denies any wrongdoing and in any case the deal fell through...

It is suggested that the DCI boss himself perennially linked to one State House faction or another had either acted under instructions from the First Family – he is reputedly close to the President's brother Muhoho Kenyatta and David Murathe the ruling party's vice-chair and the face of the anti-Ruto campaign around the President (AC Vol 61 No 8 Freight storm hits the port) – or he had acted as the President's trial balloon and subsequently took the fall...

Like most Kalenjin the two politicians resent of the President's treatment of his Deputy William Ruto (a Kalenjin) now practically excluded from all aspects of government by a squad of the President's closest advisers led by Jubilee Party deputy chairman David Murathe in alliance with Raila Odinga's key men in the Orange Democratic Movement...