Tangatanga team aligned to the Deputy President William Ruto have been under attack. The Security details of key government officials leading the tangatanga crusades across the country were withdrawn.
But who is the man behind the withdrawal of the security details of key Tangatanga members?
Just the other day, the Deputy President William Ruto suffered the pain of lacking security detail while in an event in Nyeri.
Meet the man responsible for all that:
Karanja Kibicho is a Kenyan research scientist, educator and a government official. He is the Principal Secretary of State Department of Interior in the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of the National Government.
Kibicho was born on July 29, 1967 in Nairobi, Kenya; the son of Njogu Wakibicho and Muthoni Kibicho.
Karanja received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nairobi in 1991. Five years later he was given a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the same university. In 2006, he earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cape Town.
Kibicho began his career as an assistant factory manager at Kenya Tea Development Authority in 1992. A year later he took a position of a lecturer at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. In 2007, he worked as a chairman of mechanical engineering department at the same university and held the position until 2010.
In 2007, Karanja became a director at Affinity Ventures Ltd. and held it for two years. Then in 2009 he was appointed a director of GreenUniverse Ventures Ltd.
He held the position of an external examiner at the University of Dar es Salaam, visiting lecturer at the Central University of Technology in South Africa and a part-time lecturer at the University of Cape Town.
Kibicho served as the principal secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and also permanent secretary in the Ministry of Industrialization. Nowadays he works as the principal secretary of State Department of Interior in the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of the National Government.