Last week, the Kenyan shilling remained unchanged against the US dollar, to close at Sh108.5 similar to what was recorded the previous week. President Uhuru Kenyatta appears to have shoved DP William Ruto from the centre of power after stripping him of his allies in Parliament and reducing his functions and funding. Legal experts say there are no fixed timelines for the start of presidential campaign vote hunt. To cut his political influence to size, President Kenyatta issued an Executive Order in January last year in a reorganisation that gave Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i more powers. By granting the CS supervisory roles across government, the President whittled his principal assistant's influence and in essence, ended his countrywide tours to launch and commission state projects.

Source: The Star October 12, 2020 07:53 UTC