Uhuru Cabinet
James Wainaina Macharia: A corporate world trailblazer turned valued technocratAugust 3, 2022Were it not for the 2010 Constitution, the public may not have benefitted directly from the endowments and exposure of James Wainaina Macharia, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Transport and Infrastructure. Indeed, the Constitution reconstructed […]
Kibaki Cabinet
Suleiman Shakombo – President’s coast pointmanApril 25, 2022Suleiman Rashid Shakombo was a totally unknown entity in Likoni before he entered the political arena in 1997. He left the Provincial Administration and, backed by an unfamiliar party, unseated Khalif Salim Mwavumo who was from the more familiar Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-Kenya […]
Moi Cabinet
Noah Katana Ngala – Business student who inherited his father’s seatMay 16, 2022Save, diplomatic and easy-going; that’s how colleagues, friends and relatives describe Noah Katana Ngala, the first-born son of pre-independence nationalist leader, Ronald Ngala. In April 2002, a local daily newspaper, The Standard, once described the now septuagenarian Ngala thus: “… too cool for […]
Kenyatta Cabinet
Joseph D. Otiende – Principled independence politicianApril 29, 2022Joseph D. Otiende was a pioneer educator, politician, administrator, freedom fighter, MP and Cabinet minister, and he is still engaged in community leadership in Western Province. With others, this nonagenarian offered selfless service that led to […]