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Uhuru Cabinet

  • John Kiyonga Munyes: The favoured Kaiser from the North
    Level-headed, soft-spoken, and shy of controversy, John Kiyonga Munyes does not come across as a politician in a country where the kind are known to be boisterous, cavalier, or rabble-rousing. Perhaps his demeanour stems from his many years in the […]

Kibaki Cabinet

  • Kiraitu Murungi – Kibaki’s judicial surgeon
    Murungi’s biggest selling point as Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs was most certainly his illustrious legal career and specialisation in constitutional law. In addition, he was a man of the people who had endeared himself to the masses through his legal practice and initiation of a […]

Moi Cabinet

  • John Musembi Kyalo – He gave Makueni a hospital in a tricky mix-up!
    John Musembi Kyalo was a technocrat who left a rich, extensive and successful career in the civil service to join politics, becoming one of President Daniel arap Moi’s trusted and loyal Cabinet ministers. This was the minister reported to have used trickery to put up a multi-million shilling […]

Kenyatta Cabinet

  • James Osogo – Oversaw growth of hospitals
    What comes to one’s mind whenever one converses with James Charles Nakhwanga Osogo is Shakespeare’s dictum in as you like it: “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man […]
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