Nairobi, March 27 -- For a man who wanted to become a matatu driver when he was growing up, Kennedy Ogeto probably counts himself lucky to almost always find himself at the centre of power rather than on the fringes of it.

Appointed last week as the Legal Adviser to President William Ruto, the former Solicitor-General became one of the few individuals thought to have been in the Inner Circle of former President Uhuru Kenyatta to get a similar role in the current administration.

During the Supreme Court hearing of the petition challenging Dr Ruto's victory in the August 2022 election, his name was mentioned as having been among members of the National Security Advisory Committee (NSAC) that allegedly made a controversial visit to then ch...