Uhuru Cabinet
Rashid Echesa: From among bucolics to high national dutyAugust 14, 2022Few people of Rashid Mohammed Echesa’s social and educational background have had the good fortune to rise to national prominence at his age. Echesa, the son of a respected company driver Mohammed Lukungu, was born in a modest family in the […]
Kibaki Cabinet
Peter Njeru Ndwiga – Minister who smelt the coffeeApril 25, 2022Peter Njeru Ndwiga, the Minister for Cooperative Development and Marketing in the first of President Mwai Kibaki’s two terms, was one of the most loyal and non-controversial ministers. The Member of Parliament for Manyatta Constituency was also the only Cabinet Minister at the time from the then […]
Moi Cabinet
Francis Mwanzia Nyenze – Panic over the Presidential sleepoverMay 5, 2022The humble three-bedroom rural abode of newly-appointed Minister for Sports and Culture, Francis Mwanzia Nyenze, became home for a night for President Daniel arap Moi during a two-day tour of Kitui district in the days when mere proximity to the President was a ticket to power. Nyenze, then in his […]
Kenyatta Cabinet
Njoroge Mungai- Kenyatta’s doctor who brought UNEP to NairobiApril 30, 2022Apart from holding brief clerical jobs in the two years between leaving Alliance High School in 1945 and joining South Africa’s Fort Hare University in 1948, John Njoroge Mungai was a country bus driver, ferrying passengers between Limuru and […]