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Deputy President Kithure Kindiki at Mwala constituency in Machakos County on May 20, 2026. [John Muia, Standard]
After a week-long national crisis occasioned by the sharp increase of fuel prices, Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has finally emerged to address the matter, albeit too late.
Many Kenyans expected the country’s second-in command to demonstrate leadership in addressing the citizens’ concerns of the heavy economic burden triggered by the high cost of fuel while President William Ruto was away, but that came rather too late with no practical relief at hand.
Speaking in public about the fuel prices crisis for the first time, Prof Kindiki appeared to play catch-up with the verbal assurances issued by Cabinet Secretaries Opiyo Wandayi (Energy and Petroleum) and his Interior counterpart, Kipchumba Murkomen.
