Kenya YearBook Editorial Board | Cabinets

Uhuru Cabinet

Kibaki Cabinet

  • Suleiman Shakombo – President’s coast pointman
    Suleiman 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 seat
    Save, 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 politician
    Joseph 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 […]
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