Kenya YearBook Editorial Board | Cabinets

Uhuru Cabinet

  • Amb. Raychelle Omamo: Kenya’s first female Defence CS
    Raychelle Awuor Omamo could easily escape the attention of anyone studying President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Cabinet owing to her successful quest to keep a low and non-scandalous profile in the 10 years she has served. From day one, when she was appointed […]

Kibaki Cabinet

  • John Michuki – The man in a hurry
    He was one man in a hurry to help the newly-elected President reverse the economic decline and indiscipline that had taken over the transport industry. At the time, most public taxis (known as matatus) in Kenya operated under the Matatu Owners Association, which had replaced the Matatu Vehicle […]

Moi Cabinet

  • Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki – Four government ministries in five years
    Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki was one of the technocrats in President Daniel arap Moi’s Cabinet who climbed his way up the ranks of the ruling party, KANU, to become its National Organising Secretary. For some reason, Ndambuki served in four government ministries in the five years of Moi’s final […]

Kenyatta Cabinet

  • Jomo Kenyatta in Lodwar and Maralal
    Kenyatta’s prison term at Lokitaung ended on April 14, 1959, and the restriction order passed by Thacker and confirmed by Baring in September 1954 was immediately applied. He was moved to Lodwar, in Turkana, the administrative centre for the […]
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