Kithure Kindiki vs David Maraga

As Deputy President he is a principal of the government whose mixed economic record is set out under William Ruto. No separate economic record of his own was found. (low confidence)

UGM petitioned Parliament for a state-funded Sh300 billion youth jobs and cash-for-work programme. (low confidence)

Says the tax burden falls on low- and middle-income earners while revenue is lost to graft, and called the government's tax policy 'economic terrorism' (April 2026). (low confidence)

His 2020 advisory sought to enforce the constitutional rule that no more than two-thirds of Parliament be of one gender. His personal faith (Seventh-day Adventist) is not counted. (medium confidence)

Says devolution is now too entrenched to be reversed and that national and county governments must cooperate, not compete (June 2025). A stated position from an office with little power of its own, so it counts at the lighter weight. (low confidence)

As Chief Justice he led the Supreme Court majority that annulled the August 2017 presidential election, and in September 2020 advised the President to dissolve Parliament for failing to pass the two-thirds gender law. In June 2026 a five-judge High Court bench ruled that advisory premature and procedurally unconstitutional. (high confidence)

A career insider: Senate Majority Leader, Senate Deputy Speaker, Interior CS and now Deputy President, all within the governing camp. (medium confidence)

Left the bench for opposition politics on a small party outside the main coalitions. As a former head of the Judiciary he is not an outsider in the usual sense. (medium confidence)

As Interior CS he declared in July 2023 that no more opposition protests would be allowed 'with or without notice', and he was in charge of policing during the 2023 and 2024 protests in which rights groups recorded dozens of deaths. He denies police brutality and abductions. (medium confidence)

Marched with families of protest victims in July 2025 and was tear-gassed. Arrested on 8 June 2026 at a protest against excising Nairobi National Park land, and refused to leave the police station until the others held were released. (medium confidence)