Mungiki back-up: Maina Njenga's hand in Ruto's mobilisation for Mt Kenya tour

Former Mungiki leader Maina Njenga and his followers at Kamukunji Grounds in Nyeri on January 27, 2025.  [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

President William Ruto is making a return to the Mt Kenya region, his stomping ground during the 2022 presidential election campaigns. But the region has clearly undergone a sea change in the past two years.

Increasingly, it seems that the political terrain he once easily trod may no longer be as firm beneath his feet as it once was.