Former Governors, MPs land plum positions in Ruto’s latest appointments
President William Ruto. Photo/Courtesy
A large number of former elected leaders are the beneficiaries of President William Ruto’s recent appointments.
The appointments have resulted in a majority of the president’s loyalists, who were unsuccessful in last year’s election, being co-opted into government.
In an announcement released Friday, former County Governors Cleophas Lagat (Nandi) and Jack Ranguma (Kisumu) have been selected to serve as Chairmen of the Board of Directors of Rivatex East Africa Limited and SACCO Societies Regulatory Authority, respectively, for a three-year term.
Former Uasin Gishu Deputy Governor Daniel Chemno will become the new Chair of the New Kenya Planters Co-Operative Union (KPCU), while his former Kericho County counterpart Lily Ngók will become Chair of the Board of Directors of Kenya Industrial Estates.
A large number of former lawmakers also benefited. Former Keiyo South lawmaker Daniel Rono is the new chair of the board of directors of the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority, while former Mbeere North MP Charles Muriuki Njagagua has served as chair of the board of directors of the Consolidated Bank for a period of time Limited has been appointed three (3) years.
Former Kilome MP Regina Ndambuki will become chair of the board of directors of the Tanathi Water Works Development Agency, while former Vihiga MP Yusuf Chanzu has been appointed chair of the National Housing Corporation.
Former Nyatike MP Edick Omondi Anyanga has been given the post of Chair of the Board of Directors of Kenya’s nuclear regulator, while former Bumula MP Moses Wekesa Mwambu Mabonga has assumed the position of Chair of the Insurance Regulator.
Sakwa Bunyasi, former MP from Nambale and candidate for Governor of Busia, has also been appointed chair of the Kenya Vision 2030 Delivery Board, while his former counterpart from Bomet East, Beatrice Kones, has a position as a member of the Board of Directors of the Local Authorities Provident Fund was awarded for a period of three years.
At the same time, President Ruto has appointed former Law Society of Kenya Chair Nelson Havi as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Retirement Benefits Authority for a three (3) year term. Havi ran unsuccessfully for the Westlands parliamentary seat in the August 2022 election.