The secret political deals, statecraft, and a reckoning with power
The Fight for Order
In THE FIGHT FOR ORDER, richly adorned with piercing honesty, Justin Bedan Muturi uses his searing gift of storytelling to deliver an unflinching exposé about Kenya’s kleptocratic circus, the petty political theatre and the plundering ineptitude in government that keeps holding the country back.
With over four decades in public service, as the only Kenyan to serve in the Judiciary, in opposition politics, and as the Speaker of the National Assembly, the Attorney General of Kenya, and Cabinet Secretary, Muturi gives a raw blistering insider portrait exposing the inner workings of a state captured by obsessive grasping greed, driven by visionless small-minded hustle, and crippled by crude, contemptuous impunity.
He was part of the system until it chewed him up, spat him out, and left him with nothing but the piercing wisdom of a truthful pen.
Now he rips back the curtain with a sharp-edged confession, a reckoning with power and a masterclass in why values, institutions, and the rule of law still matter in a country where politics kills them first.
The Fight for Order
Most political memoirs play it safe. This one does not.
Inching close to 70 years, with a long career as a public servant, politician, and a leader of Parliament, the Attorney General’s office, and a ministry, Justin Muturi has dumped the self-preservation instinct in every politician’s bone and chosen piercing candour.
He writes with seasoned clarity about the rot in Parliament, the institution he served and led; the impunity of rogue civil servants; and the political and commercial greed that has overrun the government.
He describes in shocking detail, with credible verifiable examples, the casual ways in which top politicians and oligarchic businessmen connive to loot the Kenyan State via rigged reforms.
He explains his politically pragmatic dalliance with William Ruto, Kenya’s fifth President, whom he served as Attorney General and Cabinet Secretary before their very public, noisy and messy fallout when Ruto’s regime abducted his son.
With the sting of hindsight, a touch of simmering anger, and a dose of regret, he revisits the private battles he fought to build honest institutions inside a broken system and the gambles that cost him his job when he tried to confront theft, hypocrisy and impunity in high office.
Muturi also writes about the ups and downs of his long friendship with Kenya’s fourth President, Uhuru Kenyatta, under whose decade-long presidency he served as Speaker.
Justin Bedan Muturi
Justin Bedan Muturi was born in Siakago in 1956 and educated at Kanyuambora Primary, Kangaru School, and the University of Nairobi, where he earned a law degree.
He began his career as a magistrate before entering politics, eventually becoming the first Speaker of Kenya’s National Assembly under the 2010 Constitution, serving from 2013 to 2022.
In 2022, he ended his presidential bid to back William Ruto, later serving as Attorney General and Cabinet Secretary for Public Service and Human Capital Development.
He lives in Nairobi and Kanyuambora, Embu, from where he continues to boldly pursue order and democratic integrity for Kenya.
“Muturi gave public service his all, and history will remember him as one of the most consistent and committed Speakers our Parliament has had. He tells part of the story in this juicy, personal, raw and exhilarating book, dripping with convivial banter and his trademark honesty.”
— H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta, CGH
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