Kimemia biography definition

By ABDIKADIR SUGOW

KENYA: Is he the bad guy of the Mwai Kibaki and Uhuru Kenyatta regimes as has been painted or is he the most misunderstood man in Kenya?

Mr Francis Thuita Kimemia, the man who held the powerful position of PS to the Cabinet and Head of Public Service in President Kibaki’s regime and now Secretary in the Cabinet Office in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government, cuts an ordinary figure when The Standard On Sunday visits him in office.

On this Friday a week ago, he had dashed from a function with President Kenyatta at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) to honour the date with this writer, after many days of telephone calls and text messages.

The time was soon after 9pm, and we settled down to business in this expansive Harambee House office on the second floor that houses the nerve centre of the powerful docket in the land. Hanging on the wall are portraits of Presid