Uhuru Cabinet
Adan Mohamed: The resolute achieverAugust 4, 2022If ‘stick-with-it-ness’ were a word, it would perfectly describe the career of Adan Mohamed. He is one of the few Cabinet secretaries who served in the same ministry for the entirety of each of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government terms: first in […]
Kibaki Cabinet
Peter Anyang Nyong’o – Economic recovery strategistApril 25, 2022Nyong’o had fallen out with Raila Odinga and refused to join his National Development Party (NDP) that swept nearly all the Parliamentary seats in Luo Nyanza. The two were part of a group of Young Turks who worked with elders such as Jaramogi Oginga, Masinde Muliro and Ahmed Bamahriz to found the […]
Moi Cabinet
Joseph Kimeu Ngutu – Beneficiary of Ngei’s fall from powerMay 12, 2022Joseph Kimeu Ngutu was a police officer-turned-politician who had difficulties fitting in the shoes of mercurial politician and freedom fighter, Paul Joseph Ngei. Ngutu was the beneficiary of Ngei’s fall from power when he was finally forced to resign from his Cabinet post and relinquish his […]
Kenyatta Cabinet
Zachary Onyonka – An intellectual to the endMay 1, 2022Zachary Theodore Onyonka was born on June 28, 1939, in Meru, where his father, Godrico Oeri Mairura, was a policeman. Zachary was the second child of Oeri and Kerobina Kebati. The family left for Kisii after his father resigned from the police force […]