Kenya YearBook Editorial Board | Cabinets

Uhuru Cabinet

  • Raphael Tuju: The suave politician with full portfolio
    On 12 February 2020, President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Cabinet Secretary without portfolio, Raphael Tuju, almost died – again. He was strapped in and fast asleep in the front passenger seat of his official vehicle on this cold, wet early morning as his […]

Kibaki Cabinet

  • Ahmed Khalif – Kibaki’s shortest-serving minister
    In appointing Khalif Minister for Labour and Manpower Development in 2003, Kibaki had brought to his government one of the most iconic leaders of the Second Liberation movement from northern Kenya — a region not associated at the time with mainstream opposition politics. The pride of Wajir, he […]

Moi Cabinet

  • Mwai Kibaki – The gentleman politician
    When President Jomo Kenyatta died in 1978, Mwai Kibaki was his long-serving Minister for Finance. Once Vice President Daniel arap Moi took over and constituted his Cabinet in October the same year, he retained Kibaki in the Finance docket and elevated him to the vice presidency. At the height of […]

Kenyatta Cabinet

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