Uhuru Cabinet
James Wainaina Macharia: A corporate world trailblazer turned valued technocrat
August 3, 2022Were it not for the 2010 Constitution, the public may not have benefitted directly from the endowments and exposure of James Wainaina Macharia, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Transport and Infrastructure. Indeed, the Constitution reconstructed […]
Kibaki Cabinet
Newton Kulundu – The determined bricklayer
April 25, 2022Newton Wanjala Kulundu, the medic-turned-politician, was easy to underestimate. The Member of Parliament (MP) for Lurambi, a constituency carved out of the then larger Kakamega District (now Kakamega County) at independence, had a somewhat laboured manner of speech that underlined humble beginnings […]
Moi Cabinet
Paul Joseph Ngei – Volatile man of influence
May 1, 2022Paul Joseph Ngei had a burning, often-expressed ambition to succeed Kenya’s first President, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. This yearning for power would later become his albatross when he was a Cabinet Minister under President Daniel arap Moi. Due to his close association with Kenyatta spanning nearly […]
Kenyatta Cabinet
Taaitta Toweett – The odd man of Kenya’s politics
May 1, 2022Dr Taaitta Kipyegon arap Toweett was born in 1925. He started school at Litein Primary and later joined Kabianga Mission School. In the 1948 Kenya African Preliminary Examination, he emerged the top pupil in the country. He joined Alliance High […]