Kithure Kindiki vs Boniface Mwangi

As Deputy President he is a principal of the government whose mixed economic record is set out under William Ruto. No separate economic record of his own was found. (low confidence)

Free public services imply a bigger state role. He has not set out a policy on ownership or markets. (low confidence)

Campaigns on free education, health care and water, plus recovery of stolen public money. (medium confidence)

Says devolution is now too entrenched to be reversed and that national and county governments must cooperate, not compete (June 2025). A stated position from an office with little power of its own, so it counts at the lighter weight. (low confidence)

A career insider: Senate Majority Leader, Senate Deputy Speaker, Interior CS and now Deputy President, all within the governing camp. (medium confidence)

An activist outside party politics who says he will campaign door to door and refuse alliances with ethnic power brokers. (medium confidence)

As Interior CS he declared in July 2023 that no more opposition protests would be allowed 'with or without notice', and he was in charge of policing during the 2023 and 2024 protests in which rights groups recorded dozens of deaths. He denies police brutality and abductions. (medium confidence)

Years documenting police killings and leading protests. Detained in Tanzania in May 2025, where Amnesty International reports he was tortured. Charged in Kenya in July 2025 with possessing a blank round after terrorism accusations were dropped. He pleaded not guilty. (high confidence)