DAILY POST: Here is why UHURU trusts MATIANGI like his son

DAILY POST: Here is why UHURU trusts MATIANGI like his son - See where they met before UHURU was elected president in 2013 – now wonder he trust him Politics 07:59 Thursday January 24, 2019-President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday surprised Kenyans when he elevated Interior Cabinet Secretary, Fred Matiangi, to a senior position in his Executive.
Uhuru named Matiangi as the chairman chairperson of a newly constituted National Development Implementation and Communication Committee that has all cabinet secretaries as members. In addition, President Kenyatta transferred the management and co-ordination of national transport and safety to Dr Matiang’I’s docket.  Political pundits says following the elevation, Matiangi is now the second in command after President Uhuru Kenyatta. Many Kenyans have been asking why Uhuru trusts Matiangi so much that he has even given him his presidential duties like chairing Cabinet meetings. Uhuru and Matiangi reportedly first met and developed some rapport during President Mwai Kibaki’s first term when Uhuru was then the leader of Opposition. Matiang’i was by then in charge of the Kenya Parliamentary Support Programme (KPSP) which was financing the parliamentary broadcasting service and digitising the proceedings. They later continued to work together when Uhuru became the Deputy Prime Minister in the coalition government. In 2013, President Kenyatta poached Matiang'i from the position of Eastern Africa Regional Representative for the Centre for International Development, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, in the State University of New York (SUNY). He appointed him as Information and Communication Cabinet Secretary. Matiang’i took over the ICT Ministry where he ruthlessly pushed the media to adopt the digital migration and ruled out turning back to analogue. He was later taken to expansive Education docket where he dismantled examination cartels that had infiltrated the Kenya National Examinations Council and profited by leaking exam papers to schools and candidates. From there he was taken to the powerful Interior Ministry where he is serving up today.

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