Questions surround President Ruto s security plans after he reshuffles the top military jobs for the second time in two months, Regarded as sure-footed on politics and diplomacy, President William Samoei Ruto s management of security policy in a troubled region has been prompting questions about where he wants to take Kenya s armed forces. The concerns are prompted by Ruto s latest military reshuffle on 2 May. It confirmed the appointment of Lieutenant General Charles Muriu Kahariri as Commander of the Kenya Defence Force but was accompanied be a slew of other senior military changes – the second reordering of top level securocrats in two months.
Francis Ogolla was an unlikely pick as military chief by President Ruto. His untimely death could allow Ruto to handpick his own securocrats, The death of General Francis Ogolla, the Commander of the Kenya Defence Forces, on 18 April, prompted an outpouring of eulogies across party lines that was exceptional even by Kenyan standards. Ogolla was killed, along with nine other senior officers, when his KDF helicopter crashed in Sindar, Elgeyo-Marakwet County, in the Northern Rift.
President William Ruto has issued a resounding call to eliminate tribalism and foster national unity during his address at the swearing-in ceremony of the new Kenya Defence Forces Vice Chief Lieutenant General Charles Muriu Kahariri and Service Commanders at State House, Nairobi.