Kenya YearBook Editorial Board | Cabinets

Uhuru Cabinet

  • Charles Keter: Jubilee’s lighting paladin
    Charles Cheruiyot Keter was not among the first choices for Cabinet slots when Jubilee Party came to power in 2013. However, he would go on to become one of the longest-serving Cabinet secretaries for Energy despite joining the government slightly […]

Kibaki Cabinet

  • Chirau Ali Mwakwere – The magniloquent ‘shark’
    A political player par excellence, Chirau Ali Mwakwere was one of the most colourful and humorous personalities in President Mwai Kibaki’s administration. The politician from Kwale County in the coastal region was known to tickle his listeners, including the President, to the point of tears through […]

Moi Cabinet

  • Peter Habenga Okondo – A loose tongue proved to be his final undoing
    Throughout his political career that spanned the colonial years until 1990, Peter Habenga Okondo was known for being outrageously outspoken; so much so that the media commonly referred to him as a man with a loose tongue. During the 1992 multiparty election campaigns, he was quoted as chiding […]

Kenyatta Cabinet

  • James Osogo – Oversaw growth of hospitals
    What comes to one’s mind whenever one converses with James Charles Nakhwanga Osogo is Shakespeare’s dictum in as you like it: “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man […]
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