Kenya YearBook Editorial Board | Cabinets

Uhuru Cabinet

  • Adan Mohamed: The resolute achiever
    If ‘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

  • 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

  • Winfred Nyiva Mwendwa – An accomplished politician who scored many firsts
    Winfred Nyiva Mwendwa made history when she was appointed by President Daniel arap Moi as Kenya’s first female Cabinet Minister in 1992. She served as Minister for Culture and Social Services. The widow of Kenya’s first African Chief Justice, Kitili Maluki Mwendwa, the accomplished politician, now […]

Kenyatta Cabinet

  • Robert Matano – Mentor of many Coast politicians
    The 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 […]
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