How can an unelected man who boasts of obscure academic credentials and has no formal office hold so much sway in the corridors of power for so long? How can such a man evoke so much love and resentment at the same time.

Welcome to the world of Farouk Kibet, a man who has made a deputy president, Cabinet Secretaries, governors and Members of Parliament quake in their boots. 

A call from Mr Kibet is known to have sent shivers down the spines of the high and mighty in Kenya. Such calls have in the past made and broken careers.