Though almost all of the senior diplomatic posts awarded by Ruto have gone to fellow Kalenjins several senior ambassadors including United Nations ambassador Martin Kimani have remained in post for now...

Last year Kenya's UN ambassador Martin Kimani made an impassioned speech drawing parallels between Ukraine a former member state of the Soviet Union and Africa's post-colonial nation states (AC Vol 63 No 5 Alliances come under heavy fire & Dispatches 28/2/22 Moscow and Washington step up diplomatic fight over Ukraine war)...

At a meeting of the UN Security Council Kenya's ambassador Martin Kimani accused Moroccan and Spanish authorities of brutality at the border saying the incident was the latest reminder that African refugees are treated differently in Europe...

At a UN Security Council session on the Great Lakes on 27 April Kenya's ambassador to the UN Martin Kimani urged members to back the EAC plan...

At the UN Security Council Kenya's Ambassador Martin Kimani made a vibrant speech on the respect of territorial integrity and national sovereignty reminiscent of statements of the Organisation of the African Union six decades ago...

At the Security Council meeting Kenya speaking also on behalf of two other African member states was one of the more pro-active members; its Ambassador Martin Kimani arguing that the further the Tigray forces advance outside their home region the greater the risks of a deepening conflagration...

Related to this one of Ambassador Martin Kimani's priorities as Nairobi's man at the Security Council in New York will be to push the Council to designate Al Shabaab a terrorist organisation...

His closest policy advisors like Karanja Kibicho Fred Matiangi Ruth Kagia Martin Kimani and Anne Waiguru flatter him with predictions that there will be time and resources to achieve the objectives of the Big Four provided the government disregards the 'neo-liberal' caution of the IMF and the World Bank...