The appointment of digital strategist Pauline Njoroge and Kalonzo Musyoka’s son Kevin Muasya to the Tourism Regulatory Authority’s Board of Directors has been revoked.
Tourism Cabinet Secretary (CS) Peninah Malonza also revoked the appointments of Najma Ismail, Alais Lenana Momoi, and Isaac Muchiri Njangu to the authority in a gazette notice dated March 9, 2023.
“In exercise of the powers conferred by section 8 (1) (g) of the Tourism Act, as read together with section 51 (1) of the Interpretations and General Provisions Act, the Cabinet Secretary for Tourism, Wildlife and Heritage revokes the appointment of Kevin Muasya, Najma Ismail, Alais Lenana Momoi, Isaac Muchiri Njangu, Pauline N. Njoroge, as members of the Board of Directors of the Tourism Regulatory Authority,” the gazette notice read.
This is however the second time Njoroge’s appointment to the tourism board has been revoked.
In 2020, the then Tourism CS Najib Balala cancelled her appointment over her social media remarks on the value of Nairobi National park.
In a Facebook post, Njoroge said ‘the only selling point of the park is that it is ‘the only national park in a capital city in the world’ and without the title, it has nothing to offer.
“I am revoking Pauline Njoroge’s appointment as a board member of Tourism Regulatory Authority because we have just seen what she had tweeted in the past that Nairobi National Park was useless. We do not want to be associated with such people and such thinking,” said Balala.
Ms Ismail controversially took Pauline’s place after the former CS stated that she was fit to serve as a member of the board.
It is not clear when Njoroge and the three others were reappointed.
