Why is CS Amina on a free fall in the Cabinet?

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March 1, 2019

Is Amina Mohammed on her way out of the cabinet after an apparent demolition to the Ministry of Youth and Sports?
This is what pundits are saying after the Executive Order sending her to the less glamorous Ministry went viral.

Amina has been on a free fall. Her docket troubles started when she was removed from the Public affairs docket to the troublesome Ministry of Education. Her goofs and suspect judgement began to hound her almost immediately. From the blues, she announced the suspension of the new curriculum to the chagrin of Education stakeholders. Then she needlessly involved in a spat with teachers over issues that could be easily mitigated.
During last year’s examination, the President himself had to step in to ensure cheating was defeated. Her exit was just but a matter of time.

The rise and rise of Magoha

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Dan Ojumah

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March 1, 2019

Speculation about Professor George Magoha taking over the delicate information docket has been on for some time.

In fact, it has been a question of when he takes over the education docket, not if.

The Surgeon’s job at the troublesome docket is well cut out. But the burly professor is equal to the task. For Magoha, challenges are never an issue. He dealt with cartels at the University of Nairobi during his stint as the vice Chancellor. He has streamlined the National Examinations Council as its Chairman.

At the Kenya Dentists and Medical Practioners board, Magoha has chastised doctors left, right and centre. He is a fearless professional burly who will square it out man to man with education cartels, KNUT, KUPPET and the toothless parents body.

Magoha actually carried the dimenour of the substantive education. In terms of job passion, he is only second to the increasingly powerful Internal Minister Dr. Fred Matiang’i.

George Albert Magoha was born on 2^nd July 1952 in Kisumu, Kenya.

He is a medic with an extensive educational background having started his primary education in Yala and Nairobi before joining Starehe Boys Centre and Strathmore College. He then proceeded to the University of Lagos in Nigeria where he studied Medicine. He is an alumni of University College Hospital in Ibadan, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland and Royal Postgraduate Medical School Hammersmith Hospital, London, Department of Urology, where he earned various academic awards. He also underwent executive management training at the Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.

Magoha was the former Vice Chancellor at the University of Nairobi where he became the first public servant to be competitively appointed, serving for 10 years until 2015.

At UoN, he is credited to have transformed the institution from being rocked by student hooliganism to a leading institution of higher learning in Kenya and internationally.

He is a surgeon, Academic Administrator and Professor of Surgery and a Consultant Urologist at the University of Nairobi’s College of Health Sciences. His inaugural lecture was in October 2003 and had published 59 research papers by the end of 2014. His research on male erectile dysfunction was used during the invention of Viagra and Cialis, both drugs used to treat the condition.

He also launched his memoir ‘Tower of Transformational Leadership ‘in 2017 which underscored the need for people to salvage the society from social ills such as nepotism, tribalism, ethnicity and racism. The book also highlighted his appointments as based on merit.

He has been married to a Nigerian Gynaecologist Dr. Odudu Barbara Magoha since 1982 and they have one son, Dr Michael Magoha, a neurosurgeon, who was born in 1985.

President Uhuru congratulates Macky Sall, Sengal’s president

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Dan Ojumah

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March 1, 2019

I write to convey my hearty congratulations following your re-election for a second term in office as the President of the Republic of Senegal.

Excellency, your victory is a validation of the trust and confidence the people of Senegal have in your ability to continue leading your country on the trajectory of success.

The peaceful election in which you emerged the winner is a highlight of a robust democratic foundation which has, over the years, earned your country recognition as a model of stability and progressive politics in Africa.

Kenya and Senegal enjoy longstanding friendly relations and a robust framework of cooperation in many areas of mutual interest. I look forward to continue working closely with Your Excellency to further deepen ties between Nairobi and Dakar through proactive bilateral and multilateral engagements.

Excellency, as you settle down to discharge your fresh mandate, I wish you success and good health as you continue to steer your great nation to new levels of prosperity.

Accept, Your Excellency and Dear Friend, my renewed offer of close collaboration and a handshake of friendship between the Republic of Kenya and the Republic of Senegal.

Africa’s student movements: history sheds light on modern activism

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Dan Ojumah

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March 1, 2019

African students at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1964 protesting against being called “savages” in parliament. Rhodesian Herald Dan Hodgkinson, University of Oxford and Luke Melchiorre, Universidad de los Andes

On 9 March 2015, a student hurled faeces at a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes. This act led to the statue’s removal. It also inspired the most significant period of student protest in post-apartheid South Africa’s history.

Student protesters called for the decolonisation of universities and public life. They spurred similar actions by student activists in the Global North. Students in other African countries like Ghana and Uganda also got involved. But the debate about what the decolonisation agenda means and who has the authority to lead it is still wide open – and often acrimonious.

The lessons from older, non-South African experiences of student protests in post-colonial African politics are often missing from those debates.

After independence, generations of university students in countries like Uganda, Kenya, Angola and Zimbabwe mobilised for change. They wanted politics and education to be decolonised, transformed and Africanised. These cases, and others, are explored in a special edition of the journal Africa.

Today’s student activism and that which came before it share two common traits. One is student protestors’ belief in their own political agency. The other is the fear state authorities have that these groups may, in the words of Ugandan scholar Mahmood Mamdani, act as a “catalytic force”. They have the power to spur other groups into action.

By looking back, scholars can understand the potential that such activism has for emancipating people from the legacies of colonialism. It’s also a useful way to identify the limits that student decolonisation projects can hold for both broader politics and society, as well as for the activists themselves.

Looking back

In our introduction to the journal, we point out that African students in the 1960s and 1970s believed themselves to be emergent political elites and intellectuals.

They questioned political leaders’ assumed role as the agents of decolonisation. They agitated for radical alternative projects of political change. These projects commonly incorporated socialist or pan-African ideological frameworks.

African universities were key actors in developing post-colonial and decolonised societies. They trained an entire new class of doctors, economists, lawyers, and other professionals.

This was happening in countries with low levels of formal schooling. And so, university students’ education was seen to give them the knowledge and skills to both understand and challenge state authority in a way that few other social groups could. These challenges led to frequent clashes between university students and the states that funded their education.

Historical protests

There was no single decolonisation project during this era. Students’ challenges to state authority looked very different in different countries. The fatal contests between radical Islamist and secular Leftist students at the University of Khartoum in Sudan in the late 1960s offer one example.

These two factions debated and violently fought over whether a decolonised Sudan should be secular and socialist, or bound by Islamic customs and values. Women’s public performances of their femininity became a lightning rod for these tensions. This boiled over into tragedy after the Adjako women’s dance was controversially performed in front of a campus crowd of men and women. The Islamic movement denounced this. Riots ensued, and a student was trampled to death.

Another example was how the 1961 assassination of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba influenced students in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His death pushed young educated Congolese to revisit the meaning of decolonisation. They turned ideologically to the Left. This shaped the ideas and practices of a generation who challenged President Mobutu Sese Seko’s authoritarian rule.

New understandings

Scholars of African student activism have typically devoted more time to analysing earlier historical periods. These include the early anti-colonial activism of nationalist leaders such as Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta in London, or Senegal’s Leopold Senghor in Paris.

By focusing on the 1960s and 1970s, the research that appears in the special edition opens up new ways of thinking about the significance of African student activism. Some students took their political ideas and behaviour into subsequent careers as opposition political leaders in Kenya, Niger and Uganda. In Zimbabwe and Angola, on the other hand, student activism opened the way into high-status careers as state leaders. These former protesters’ uncomfortable association with authoritarian governance forced them to defend the meaning of their past activism.

The articles show how decolonisation in this period shaped a generation of university students’ aspirations to challenge post-colonial forms of governance.

Dan Hodgkinson, Departmental Lecturer in African History and Politics, University of Oxford and Luke Melchiorre, Assistant Professor, Universidad de los Andes

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

Kenya and Ethiopia commit to the full implementation of LAPSSET

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Dan Ojumah

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March 1, 2019

Kenya and Ethiopia have renewed their commitment to the full implementation of the the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor(LAPSSET) projects as key enablers of the transformation of the two economies.

President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said that the regional infrastructure initiative is central to the unlocking of the economic potential of not only Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan but that of the entire East African region.

Speaking when they presided over the official opening of a two-day Kenya-Ethiopia high level trade forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the two leaders promised to deepen trade and economic ties between the two countries.

“In my mind, the LAPSSET project has great promise of transforming our countries and improving the living conditions of our people,” President Kenyatta said.

“Kenya and Ethiopia resolved to partner in developing first class infrastructure projects connecting our great nations and the continent. By this I have in mind the LAPSSET project which Kenya is, for sure, still fully committed to,” he added.

President Kenyatta is in Ethiopia on a two-day official visit at the invitation of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and is accompanied by a high powered trade delegation.

Besides pursuing joint infrastructure projects, President Kenyatta and PM Abiy called for the fastracking of the ongoing transformation of Moyale town into a cross-border trade hub in the region in line with the 2012 Special Status Agreement (SSA).

“The SSA provides a good framework for today’s discussions. The four main areas covered by the Agreement-Trade, Investment, Infrastructure, Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods-are key in building our relations, promoting our economies and more so, enabling the private sector to thrive,” President Kenyatta said.

The SSA, signed in November 2012, is a framework of collaboration between Kenya and Ethiopia, and was the enabler for the Moyale-Addis Ababa highway, the On Stop Border Post at Moyale and several other joint initiatives.

President Kenyatta invited the Ethiopian private sector to invest in the big 4 agenda projects as he challenged the business community to innovate new opportunities for trade collaboration between Kenya and Ethiopia.

“The Big 4 Agenda, on Food security; Affordable Housing; Manufacturing and Affordable Healthcare offers concrete investment opportunities, and I welcome the Ethiopian private sector to partner with us,” he said.

Prime Minister Abiy said Ethiopia was open to Kenyan investors and called for the strengthening of trade relations between the two countries.

“Opportunities are now wide open for Kenyan companies to invest in energy and aviation in Ethiopia,” PM Abiy said .

“Similarly great potential awaits Kenyan investors to explore our agro processing, textile and garment manufacturing throughout the country,” he added.

The Ethiopian leader said his country was ready to tap from Kenya’s experience and expertise in the tourism sector.

“Considering Kenya’s leading experience and know-how in the tourism sector, there’s so much Ethiopia can gain,” the Prime Minister said.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed also invited President Kenyatta to join him in the ongoing regeneration of Addis Ababa into a green modern city, ideal for urban tourism and the service sector.

Others who spoke at the opening ceremony were Cabinet Secretaries Peter Munya (Trade) and Amb. Monica Juma (Foreign Affairs), and the Ethiopian Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Werkneh Gebeyehu.

Africa’s business schools must champion anti-corruption education

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Dan Ojumah

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March 1, 2019

Business schools need to make anti-corruption education part of their curricula. From www.shutterstock.com Shiv Tripathi, Mzumbe University and Ganka Daniel Nyamsogoro, Mzumbe University

Corruption touches our lives every day. It happens across the private sector as well as the public service in the realms of housing, education, health and agriculture. Its influence reaches dangerously further, too: it directly threatens sustainable development.

Corruption takes many forms. This makes it almost impossible to definitively calculate its cost, though one estimate suggests that corruption amounts to more than 5% of the global GDP.

Research by the World Bank shows that about US $1 trillion is paid in bribes worldwide each year. Africa is home to several of the most corrupt countries in the world, according to Transparency International’s corruption perception index.

Corruption also makes it difficult for societies and economies to develop. Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the poorest regions in the world and it, along with the rest of the globe, is now gearing up to meet the sustainable development goals. Most of these goals are sadly vulnerable to corruption, whether in the realm of poverty eradication, access to health care or affordable energy.

Education could be a valuable weapon in the continent’s fight against corruption. Three business schools in Africa are already putting this theory to the test by introducing an anti-corruption programme sanctioned by the United Nations into their classrooms.

We piloted and researched their experiences for our new book, which outlines how anti-corruption education can be professionalised in business schools around the globe.

The business of fighting corruption

Research tells us that corruption can hamper the ability of a business to run well and profitably. It can affect the entire business supply chain and ultimately lessen an enterprise’s contribution to broader social and economic development.

One estimate suggests that about 80% of Africa’s job creation and its economic output depends on small and medium enterprises.

These are just some of the reasons that we believe anti-corruption education belongs in business schools. If the continent can produce business leaders who are able to identify and act against different forms of corruption, it will make a huge difference to economic growth and the successful implementation of the sustainable development goals.

There is no single correct approach to embedding anti-corruption issues in education, but a great deal can be learned from available frameworks. One of these is the UN-sanctioned Principles for Responsible Management Education Anti-Corruption Toolkit.

The toolkit was developed by a group of nearly 40 management scholars from around the world. The project was funded by the Siemens Integrity Initiative and the first draft was launched in 2012. It has since been tested and refined at 14 business schools in India, Eastern Europe, Europe, South America and Africa.

The toolkit is continuously updated. It offers case studies and research about corruption which can be introduced into a classroom for discussion. It also has a section dedicated to teaching methods, which helps to guide those lecturers who have never tackled this complex topic before.

In Africa, the toolkit was piloted in three different schools, which each applied it to different courses. Nigeria’s Lagos Business School adopted its contents into the MBA programme curriculum. Stellenbosch University in South Africa tested it through an ethics course for managers. At Mzumbe University in Tanzania, it was used in regular postgraduate level courses and in executive education programmes.

At Mzumbe, the toolkit was used to start discussions about how integrating East Africa could minimise corruption and how to deal with ethical dilemmas in cross-cultural settings. The toolkit also provided material for a 12-hour programme that taught established professionals about ethical compliance in procurement.

Other pilot sites used the toolkit to link the impact of corruption to a particular business context. Students were encouraged to share their own experiences and to envision the adverse impacts their crooked business decisions might have on their own and others’ quality of life.

Feedback from the students was very positive at all pilot business schools.

Sharing the lessons

The major challenge for anti-corruption education lies in its integration with existing curricula. Students enrol for higher education seeking knowledge and the skills they’ll need to follow a particular career path. They will respond best to being taught about anti-corruption measures if they know this will be useful in their working lives. If businesses want to minimise corruption, they must emphasise ethical values and skill sets when recruiting business schools graduates.

Beating corruption will require a collective effort from more than just business schools and corporate leaders. But anti-corruption education has an important role to play in this fight and it must become a priority in African classrooms.

Shiv Tripathi, Professor of Business Management, Mzumbe University and Ganka Daniel Nyamsogoro, Associate professor and Dean, Mzumbe University

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

Amina loses Education docket as Uhuru reshuffles government

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Dan Ojumah

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March 1, 2019

President Kenyatta issues Executive Order No. 3 of 2019 reorganizing key sectors of the Government. Some of the state ministers have been re-assigned to different ministries while others have completely lost their positions at various government departments.

Amb. Amina C. Mohammed – Reassigned to Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage
Prof. George Magoha – Nominated to head Ministry of Education

Permanent Secretaries were also re-assigned as follows

Ms. Susan N. Mochache, CBS – Ministry of Health
Mr. Ali Noor Ismail, CBS – State Department of Cooperatives
Dr. Ibrahim M. Mohamed, CBS – State Department of Environment & Forestry
Eng. Peter Kiplagat Tum, OGW – State Department of Labour
Dr. Margaret Mwakima, CBS – State Department of East African Community Affairs (EAC)
Dr. Susan Koech – State Department of Wildlife

In a rather shocking twist of events, Mrs. Fatuma Hirsi has been fired from her docket as Principal Secretary, State Department of Broadcasting & Telecommunication

President Kenyatta roots for youth mentorship

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Dan Ojumah

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March 1, 2019

President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday called on successful Kenyans to mentor the youth as a way of instilling in them life skills and values needed to overcome some of the challenges facing the youngsters including corruption.

The President said that young people need to be made to appreciate the importance of virtues such as persistence, honesty and hard work as the foundation of success.

While cautioning the youth against the lure of quick riches, the President said Kenyans can prosper and gain wealth through hardwork.

“We need role models that will show our young people that easy money, yes it is easy but quick to go but the sweat of our brawn is hard to get but it stays longer and gives dignity to those who are engaged,” said President Kenyatta.

The President spoke last evening when he officially inaugurated the Eye of Kenya at the Two Rivers Mall in Nairobi.

The Eye of Kenya is Africa’s tallest ferris wheel which is 60 meters high having 40 rotating capsules, each able to hold six passengers.

President Kenyatta accompanied by other dignitaries inaugurated the wheel by taking a ride on it.

“You can work hard and make money, you don’t have to steal from your brothers and sisters. You can actually work hard and make money and do great things,” the President advised.

The President commended the chairman of Centum Investments Dr. Chris Kirubi for his persistence noting that despite his health challenges, the Kenyan entrepreneur has continued to create employment opportunities for the Kenyan youth.

“You have come back stronger, firmer and we are here doing something new. You are the epitome of what we want to propel our country farther,” the President told Dr. Kirubi.

He said the new investment demonstrates that there are still more opportunities in the country which can be harnessed to create jobs for Kenyans.

“You have shown that it is possible to work hard, it is possible to create, it is possible to think outside the box and do what others think may not be normal and create wealth not just for oneself but for the whole country, while creating opportunities for our young people,” said the President.

The Head of State said Kenya has a vibrant and talented youth population as demonstrated by the way international and global companies rush to Kenya to acquire new technological applications.

The President assured all investors and entrepreneurs of the government’s support in growing and safeguarding their investments.

Dr. Kirubi said his company will continue seeking partnerships with other entrepreneurs with the aim of creating more opportunities for Kenyans.

He commended President Kenyatta for his support, saying Kenyans of goodwill are fully behind his efforts to rid the country of corrupt individuals.

President Uhuru calls for Unity in fight against corruption

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Dan Ojumah

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February 28, 2019

President Uhuru Kenyatta has today warned that the get rich quick mentality is ruining Kenya by perpetuating corruption, plunder of public resources and related economic crimes.

The President observed that the high appetite for quick riches is largely to blame for the rising cases of Government officials engaging in the theft of public funds.

He advised Kenyans, at all levels of society, to lead honest lives and to look for riches through handwork.

“We will not reach where we want to reach as a nation if we do not abandon the get rich quick mentality,” said the President.

The Head of State called for the unity of Kenyans in the fight against corruption because it is jeopardising the progress of the nation.

“We have no other option but to fight corruption because Kenyans need roads, hospitals and jobs. The taxes we collect from Kenyans must work for the public,” said the President.

President Kenyatta said his administration has revamped the fight against graft by carrying out reforms at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP).

He said the DCI is working tirelessly to unearth graft and the ODPP is taking many corruption related cases to the courts.

The President, who spoke at Gitui Village in Muranga County during the funeral of Mzee Kamau Kabugi, said the judiciary needs to play a more positive role in the war against graft because Kenyans see them as the weakest link.

The Head of State, who earlier in the morning, attended a Judiciary function said he told the judges to change their approach to fighting corruption.

“I told them not to wait until Kenyans take the law into their own hands,” said the President.

President Kenyatta described Mzee Kabugi as a reflection of the ideal Kenyan. “He became successful because of hard work and, respect to his family and all Kenyans,” said the President.

He called on Kenyans to emulate people like Mzee Kabugi whose life story of hard work leading to riches are inspiring.

Born in 1925, Mzee Kabugi rose from being a hawker of eggs to a successful businessman with investments in real estate and in the petroleum sectors. Through sheer hard work and determination, Mzee Kabugi who was eulogised as having mentored many people, rose from a life of hardship to become an icon of success.

Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who was among leaders who spoke at the funeral, said he fully supports the President in fighting corruption.

Muranga Governor Mwangi wa Iria, Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu, Muranga Senator Irungu Kang’ata and County Woman MP Sabina Chege also spoke at the funeral.

Tears, cheers and jeers of top Police bosses since independence

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Dan Ojumah

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February 28, 2019

Bernard Hinga 1964–1978–

Hinga was sacked by President Moi after he succeeded Mzee Jomo Kenyatta in 1978. He was the police boss during the infamous change the constitution campaign by Central Province leaders opposed to Moi succeeding Kenyatta. Was close to the infamous Kiambu mafia and was the police boss when Pio Gama Pinto, Tom Mboya and J.M Kariuki were assassinated.

He oversaw the investigation into the 1970 attempted coup on
President Kenyatta’s government that consumed the careers of then Army General Joseph Ndolo and Chief Justice Maluki Kitili Mwendwa. Yatta Mp Mutiso was also jailed over the conspiracy.

Ben Gethi 1978–1982–

He met his waterloo after he was accused of being sympathetic to the 1982 failed Kenya Airforce mutiny against President Moi’s Government.

He was considered, correctly or otherwise to have been close to Major Gen Kariuki, then the commandant of the Airfare.

Bernard Njinu 1982–1988.-Served for six years. Was said to have been close to the dreaded Rift Valley mafia, coalescing around power man Nicholas Biwott. He was however swamped by the then powerful Special Branch, which hunted down those opposed to Moi’s style of leadership as they were aptly labeled as Mwakenya sympathizers. When Central Kenya leading political lights such as Kenneth Matiba and Charles Rubia started their second liberalization after the queue voting election in 1988, it was unfathomable to trust a Kikuyu at the helm at Vigilance House. And so Njinu was sacked.

Phillip Kilonzo 1988–1993– Rewarded for his role in ruthlessly dealing with University of Nairobi Students as they joined the clamor for change. Incidentally, his own Children, Vincent Mule Kilonzo, and Yatta Mp Charles Kilonzo were among the students who faced the Kilonzo big stick.

It was during his tenure that most of the detention without trial were escalated. His biggest challenge was the disappearance and murder of Cabinet Minister Robert Ouko. Kilonzo was sacked in 1993, and appointed the Chairman of the Cotton Lint and Marketting Board. He died in 1997 under mysterious circumstances at his Matuu Dallas bar, Machakos County after consuming a white cap beer. Those close to him say he wanted to contest for the Yatta seat, ironically dominated by his son Charles Kilonzo.

Shedrack Kiruki 1993–1996-A lukewarm, board again police commander.

He was sacked alongside frank Kwinga, the Immigration boss after dissident Ocallan found his way to Kenya.

Duncan Wachira 1996–1998-Served for two years. But was punched along with other security officers after Terrorists hit the US Embassy in Nairobi’s Haile Sellasie Avenue during which many people lost their lives

Philemon Abong’o 1998–2002– After the 1997 election, Raila Odinga, then NDP Party leader signed a pact with KANU in a bid to aid voting in Parliament. Abong’o was rewarded with the plum job as part of the deal sweeter. However, when Kibaki become President in 2002, Abong’o was shown the door as he was considered to suffer from KANU hangover.

Edwin Nyaseda 2002–2003-Served for one year. Crime soared during the period and was aptly sacked, becoming the shortest serving police commissioner.

Major General Hussein Ali-Served between 2004 to 2009. During his tenure, he sacked 54 officers in one go, sending shock waves to the entire police force. After that, crime drastically went down, and discipline within the force improved tremendously. Although initially there was resistance from the rank and file, he managed to streamline the operations of the then much maligned force.
He was heading well to retirement when the unthinkable happened: He along head of Civil Service Francis Muthaura, Joshua Sang, Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenya, William Ruto and Henry Kosgey were named as ICC suspects by Moreno Ocampo. Later, he was acquitted, but aptly said he would never wish than an enemy stand trial for any crime outside his motherland.

Mathew Iteere

He oversaw the transition from the old to the new constitution.

Then he retired alongside Attorney General Amos wako, Chief Justice Gicheru and other state officers who jobs were collapsed by the new constitution.

David Mwole Kimaiyo-

He Was the first Inspector General of Police.

A trained and no nonsense commando, Kimaiyo entered office with pomp and expectation.

But terror attacks in various parts of the country did him in despite tacit support from President Kenyatta and DP William Ruto.

Joseph Kipchirchir Boinett– President Uhuru Kenyatta plucked the affable Boinnet, who exhibits a polite and harmless demeanor from the National Intelligence Service (NIS).