Sunday, August 13, 2023 –President William Ruto’s private personal assistant, Farouk Kibet, is a powerful man who clears Statehouse appointments for Cabinet Secretaries CSs.
Majority leader in the National Assembly, Kimani Ichung’wah, speaking in a church service at Faith Evangelistic Ministry, Karen, Nairobi County today Sunday August 13, disclosed that Farouk runs his activities at the Statehouse and is the quiet man who every person including senior government officials must go through to reach the president.
“Farouk Kibet may seem a common man but he’s very influential in government. He decides who can access Statehouse and even Cabinet Secretaries have to go through him to reach the president,” Ichung’wah disclosed.
Just like every President has always had his Right-hand man in the past, Mr Farouk Kibet cannot be new to many Kenyans who follow national politics in the country. He has been with Ruto all through since the days of Jubilee formation, campaigns and10 year leadership.
He is known to be the only man who carries most of the President’s private and public secretes and can decide when the president should and should not hold meeting with anyone.
In any public meetings attended by the head of State, Mr. Kibet will always be spotted sitting right behind the president close to the Aid De camp ADC.
He also frequently takes charge of any political and governance meeting by deciding who will and will not address; his word is same as the ‘biblical command’ and nobody questions.
Political commentators say Mark Too and Nicholas Biwot (the Total Man) had their time in the past regimes, it’s now Farouk Kibet’s moment to shine because history has a way of manifesting itself.
Also, during Mwai Kibaki’s 10-year reign between 2002 and 20013, there was a person by the name Matere Kereri. Mr. Kereri was also a powerful statehouse controller and, therefore, it means Kibet is not the first and will not be the last.