Having inherited a debt burden running at 68% of GDP compared to the record low of 38% bequeathed to former President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ruto by Mwai Kibaki's government in 2012 and a debt repayment burden that is frontloaded in 2023 and 2024 Ruto has chosen belt-tightening...

Insiders say Odinga wants the talks to be based on the model of the negotiations with President Mwai Kibaki that followed the disputed 2007 election and were mediated by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan...

The KK administration's willingness to reset relations with the west (and away from the 'Look East' policies of both the Mwai Kibaki and Kenyatta administrations) was signalled early by the cabinet's decision to allow the importation of genetically modified grain from the United States...

The council's composition has not been disclosed but Ndii is likely to play the same kind of macro-economic planning role that Peter Anyang' Nyong'o's Economic and Recovery Strategy team played in President Mwai Kibaki's first government in the early 2000s (AC Vol 53 No 1 Downturn hits election agenda)...

We have a huge task to liberate this country and bring it back to where Mwai Kibaki left it ' he said...

But Chebukati won just 13% of the vote in Saboti Trans-Nzoia against 76% for Ludovic Wamalwa standing on Mwai Kibaki's Party of National Unity (PNU) ticket...

But for many supporters of Ruto this election is a chance to end the political and commercial dominance of the Kenyatta family which has prevailed for six decades through the era of founding father Jomo their candidates Daniel arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki up to the present government under Uhuru Kenyatta...

In March John Githongo anti-corruption chief turned whistleblower on the Anglo-Leasing scandal during Mwai Kibaki's presidency and publisher of The Elephant in Nairobi remarked that 'Kenyans are going into an election believing in nothing standing for nothing … no big idea no galvanising issue...