Uhuru Cabinet
Charity Ngilu: Politician with a penchant for self-reinventionAugust 5, 2022The wheels of fortune turn in peculiar ways for certain people. If anyone had suggested in the 1980s that Charity Kaluki Ngilu would one day be one of Kenya’s most prominent female politicians, few would have believed it. There was nothing […]
Kibaki Cabinet
Christopher Obure – Commissar who ran cowboy contractors out of townApril 25, 2022This was not Obure’s first stint in government, having been a powerful Minister under former President Daniel arap Moi, who picked him at the tail end of his regime to replace Chris Okemo as Minister for Finance following an outcry from international donors. At the time, the BBC reported that the […]
Moi Cabinet
Ngenye Kariuki – The stockbroker who would be kingMay 1, 2022Stockbroker Ngenye Kariuki was elected Member of Parliament for Kiharu in 1997 on a Safina party ticket. He was among the Opposition politicians who were vocal critics of President Daniel arap Moi’s regime, but in the twilight days of the administration he shifted his support to the ‘Uhuru […]
Kenyatta Cabinet
Daniel Mutinda – The David who felled GoliathApril 29, 2022Daniel Musyoka Mutinda is skinny, tall and dapper. He has a quiet, thoughtful mien and is scholarly-looking, complete with reading glasses. And that is not for nothing — he has a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, political science and economics […]