Ruto appoints Kositany new KAA chair as purge on Uhuru’s allies carry on

Caleb Kositany, chair of the board of the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA). FILE Picture | NMG

Former Soy Member of Parliament Caleb Kositany has been appointed as the new board chairman of the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) in the latest board shakeup by the William Ruto administration.

The appointment by Dr Ruto can take result immediately and for a time period of a few several years.

Mr Kositany’s appointment has noticed the removing of Isaac Awuondo, a longtime previous President Uhuru Kenyatta ally, who was picked in October 2021.  

Mr Awuondo served as the Group Managing Director of the Business Financial institution of Africa (CBA) just before its merger with NIC to make NCBA. At this time, he is the chairman of the NCBA Team. The Kenyatta loved ones has a 13.2 stake in the 3rd-biggest financial institution. 

Dr Ruto’s administration has produced board adjustments in at least 58 parastatals, changing extra than 100 appointees tapped by his predecessor, Uhuru Kenyatta, as he seeks to assert his influence above State-backed companies and organizations.

Dr Ruto and his Cupboard secretaries have employed at least 119 chairs and administrators in 58 parastatals, with the President specifically appointing an believed 53 directors, in accordance to a assessment of Kenya Gazette notices due to the fact the appointments began in November.

The new administration which came to power in September has primarily fired directors appointed in the former president’s final times and populated the boards with losers in the August elections who supported his coalition.

Typically, a modify in administration triggers shake-ups in parastatals as the new president and ministers move to assert their affect above federal government-managed companies that have beforehand been utilised as centres of patronage by their predecessors.

The next using the services of stage will look for to substitute chief executives of best Point out-owned corporations despite most of their contracts working up to 2024.

The terms of chief executives of the Rural Electrification Authority (REA), the Geothermal Improvement Company, the Nationwide Social Security Fund, the Kenya Railways Corporation, the Nationwide Health Insurance plan Fund (NHIF), Kenya Pipeline Corporation and KenGen have both expired or are expiring this yr.

The top rated careers at Kenya Electrical power, the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), KenGen and the Kenya Electric power Transmission Firm will be minimal-hanging fruits for new ministers.

At present, State-owned firms do not have substantive CEOs and the positions glance set to entice jostling by political and enterprise operatives for their preferred candidates.

Hiring most popular top rated executives will require friendlier boards, triggering the shake-up of directorships in the parastatals.

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