Martha Karua, among the first to declare a run for the Kenyan presidency in 2027, told AFP the country is in "total disarray" due to corruption, police killings, and economic decline.
Karua served in government in the 2000s and, as a lawyer, has lately represented jailed opposition figures in neighbouring Tanzania and Uganda.
She hopes to harness the "anger and frustration" against Kenya's President William Ruto, who spilled the streets in mass protests against tax rises and corruption last year. "We are in total disarray.
It's as if our constitution has been suspended," she told AFP in an interview in Nairobi. "We have abductions, arbitrary arrests...
