Uhuru Cabinet
Rashid Echesa: From among bucolics to high national dutyAugust 14, 2022Few people of Rashid Mohammed Echesa’s social and educational background have had the good fortune to rise to national prominence at his age. Echesa, the son of a respected company driver Mohammed Lukungu, was born in a modest family in the […]
Kibaki Cabinet
Yusuf Haji – Master of the balancingApril 25, 2022Mohammed Yusuf Haji sports the classic door-knocker beard. It is a style he adopted after he left the provincial administration in 1997, when he was nominated to Parliament by former President Daniel arap Moi. He has mellowed with age too, in a departure from times past – in June 1988, for […]
Moi Cabinet
Peter Mbiyu Koinange – The cautious politicianApril 28, 2022Peter Mbiyu Koinange, the long-standing confidant and bosom buddy of founding President Jomo Kenyatta, served under his successor President Daniel arap Moi for a very fleeting, and what may well be described as lonely, stint. Used to literally being the President’s right hand man and constant […]
Kenyatta Cabinet
Njoroge Mungai- Kenyatta’s doctor who brought UNEP to NairobiApril 30, 2022Apart from holding brief clerical jobs in the two years between leaving Alliance High School in 1945 and joining South Africa’s Fort Hare University in 1948, John Njoroge Mungai was a country bus driver, ferrying passengers between Limuru and […]