Uhuru Cabinet
Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi: Don, CS and diplomatAugust 14, 2022On 26 April 2013, President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto addressed an anxious nation at State House Nairobi. Two days before, they had named only 4 out of an expected 18 nominees for the position of Cabinet Secretary. This had […]
Kibaki Cabinet
William Samoei Ruto – Strange bedfellowsApril 25, 2022William Samoei Ruto’s entry into Mwai Kibaki’s Cabinet is one more instance proving that politics in Kenya is a spectacle of continuous experiments with various combinations and permutations of strange bedfellows. Indeed, as strange bedfellows go, none could be stranger, at first blush, than Kibaki […]
Moi Cabinet
Stanley Shapashina ole Oloitiptip – The man who stood up to colonialists for Maasai land rightsMay 16, 2022From 1963 to 1983, Stanley Shapashina ole Oloitiptip bestrode Maasai politics like a colossus, and when he dropped out of the national limelight, his political career collapsed like a house of cards – ending with a 12-month jail term. Born in 1924 in Endoinyo Oontawua, at the foot of Mt […]
Kenyatta Cabinet
Robert Matano – Mentor of many Coast politiciansMay 1, 2022The terse one o’clock announcement by the Presidential Press Unit of the sacking of Robert Stanley Matano as Minister for Information and Broadcasting in 1985 hit the Kanu secretary-general like a thunderbolt. Matano, who was en route from his […]