DISPATCHES
Ruto also appears to have relented in his vendetta against former President Uhuru Kenyatta's right-hand man former Ministry of Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i...
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A late night police raid at the home of Fred Matiang'i former Cabinet Secretary in the Interior Ministry on 8 Feburary is the latest and highest profile case of the new government's campaign against allies of former President Uhuru Kenyatta...
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The likes of former security minister Fred Matiang'i and his PS Karanja Kibicho Kenyatta loyalists who openly supported Odinga's 2022 presidential bid while making no bones about persecuting Kenya Kwanza loyalists are likely to be very worried about where these investigations will lead...
Having missed out on the Deputy President nomination Kithure Kindiki who led Ruto's legal team during the August presidential petition and represented Ruto when he faced crimes against humanity charges at the International Criminal Court has been rewarded with the Interior and National Administration Ministry previously led by Fred Matiang'i...
Few incumbent ministers backed Ruto during the election campaign and a group of senior ministers such as Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi Devolution CS Eugene Wamalwa the Ministry of Information and Communications' Joe Mucheru and Agriculture CS Peter Munya vocally opposed him...
Even before the election campaigns security Permanent Secretary Karanja Kibicho and his boss Fred Matiang'i had made no bones about their determination to go after Ruto...
Democratic Action Party-Kenya is a Luhya party with 60 candidates but few of interest outside Luhya areas and there are a dozen more micro-parties with minimal to regional impact (Murungi's Devolution Empowerment Party in Meru Interior Secretary Fred Matiangi's United Progressive Alliance in Kisii the Kenya Union Party in Pokot)...
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In October Ruto's United Democratic Alliance (UDA) wrote to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission protesting the inclusion of the cabinet secretaries for the interior and communications ministries – Fred Matiang'i and Joseph Mucheru – in the multi-agency team planning for free and fair general elections given they have been openly campaigning for Odinga...
After downgrading Ruto's security detail last month by withdrawing elite General Service Unit (GSU) officers guarding Ruto's government and private residences Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi' went on the offensive pointing out that 257 officers are assigned to Ruto's various details making him the most protected second-in-command in Kenya's history...
On 24 March Interior Minister Fred Matiang'i gave the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 14 days to draw up a plan to close the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps saying there was no more room for negotiations...
Outside the Treasury top securocrats such as Interior Minister Fred Matiang'i his principal secretary Karanja Kibicho and State House advisor Ruth Kagia urge the president on in accomplishing a legacy of big projects and the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI)...
