Will Kindiki reclaim Mt Kenya's trust from comfort of his Karen home?

Deputy President Kithure Kindiki (second right) flanked by Governors Mutahi Kahiga (Nyeri), Kawira Mwangaza (Meru), Cecily Mbarire (Embu) and Muthomi Njuki (Tharaka Nithi) arrive for the 26th Ordinary Session of the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC), Karen, Nairobi. [DPCS]

If Deputy President Kithure Kindiki can not go to the mountain, then the mountain must go to Karen. For the whole of this month, Kindiki has been working from his official residence, the “Hustler’s mansion”. 

Seventeen days after he was sworn in, Prof Kindiki made his first public appearance in Embu as the Deputy President where he was coldly received by the crowd which, at some point, jeered senior government officials.

He was accompanied by his boss Dr Ruto in a church service that was also attended by freshly impeached Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua as well as former President Uhuru Kenyatta.