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Post by phil on May 3, 2012 18:00:53 GMT 3
This line up is the most sickening of all state corporations under Kimunya's ministry of Transport. I actually asked Asst Minister Hassan Joho to petition Kimunya on this as he requests for changes in KPA. The Board of Directors of Kenya Airports Authority
Mr. Martin Nyaga - Chairman Eng. Stephen Gichuki - Managing Director Mr. Joseph Kinyua - PS Ministry of Finance Dr. Cyrus Njiru, CBS - PS Ministry of Transport Mrs. Catherine Kuria- Director Eng. Abdulrazak Adan Ali - Director Mr. Francis Kimemia - PS OP Internal Security & Provincial Administration Mrs. Joseph Denar - Director Mr. Muriithi Kibuchi - Director Mr. Hassan M. Kulow - Director Ms. Joy Nyaga - Corporation Secretary Mr. Macharia Njeru - Director Mr. Peter Ondieki - Inspectorate of State Corporations Mr. Isaac Kamau - Alternate Director Ministry of Transport Mr. Chrisologus Makokha - Alternate Director Mrs. Beatrice Gathirwa - Alternate Director Ministry of Finance Mr. Aggrey Busena - Alternate Director Internal Security & Provincial Administration www.kenyaairports.co.ke/kaa/about/directors.htmlThe Management list is even more sickening. So much for regional balance.
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Post by diramu on May 4, 2012 4:32:37 GMT 3
Another shameful BOARD from Ministry of Kimunya KENYA MARITIME AUTHORITY BOARD 1. Col (Rtd) Joseph Nguru, CBS Chairman - Central 2. Mrs. Nancy W. Karigithu, MBS (MD)- Central 3. Dr. Cyrus Njiru, PhD, CBS Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport (Central) 4. Mr. John Njera – (Central) 5. Mr. Joseph K. Kamiri (Cental) 6. Mrs. Beatrice A. Ogolla (Nyanza) 7. Mrs. Roselyn Amadi (Nyanza) 8. Mr. Silvester Kututa (Central) 9. Ms. Bertha J. Dena (Coast) 10. Mr. Seif Bendara, HSC (Coast) 11. Mrs. Margaret Mwangi, HSC (Central) Corporation Secretary If you wish to achieve the bias you seek, how about tagging the individuals by their tribes? I know a friend of mine with a gikuyu name who only knows Mombasa as his home. Now would you tag him as from Central just becuase he has a gikuyu name? How about Mrs. Amadi, just what if she is from the Mombasa county and not the Luo backyard you seem to tag her on? That is why I said, call them by tribe not where you think they came from!!! The fact is its impunity to the highest degree. These are facts not like adding the name of Hassan Kulow(nep) as a director of Kenya ports authourity
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Post by diramu on May 6, 2012 4:27:17 GMT 3
SUMMONED: Amos Kimunya. Photo/ Jack Owuor . TRANSPORT minister Amos Kimunya is on the spot again as it emerges that parastatals under his ministry, besides the Kenya Ports Authority, have a disproportionate number of Kikuyu in senior positions. Kimunya was yesterday summoned to appear on Monday by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission to explain the failure to adhere to the maximum quota per community in KPA, Kenya Maritime Authority and the Kenya Airports Authority.
Yesterday the NCIC held a three hour meeting with Transport PS Cyrus Njiru who was accompanied by KPA MD Gichiri Ndua where they provided a list of all employees. The NCIC summoned Kimunya and his PS because the KPA board now has nine out of 14 directors from the Kikuyu community after the minister's recent appointments to the board.
Commissioner Fatuma Mohamed told reporters that the PS had furnished NCIC with detail on all employees. “We expect to meet the minister, his PS and KPA management next week. We will also study the report and give our verdict after studying the data,” Fatuma added. Col (Rtd) Joseph Nguru is the chairman of Kenya Maritime Authority while Nancy W. Karigithu, also a Kikuyu, is the CEO.
The Transport PS, also a Kikuyu, sits in the board along with his tribesmates Joseph Kamiri, Silvester Katuta, John Njera and Margret Mwangi who is the secretary. The other four members are Beatrice Ogola (Luo), Roselyn Amadi (Luhya), Seif Bendera (Coast) and Bertha Dena (Coast). At KAA, Kimunya controversially appointed Stephen Gichuki as MD while 11 out of 16 board members are from the Mt Kenya region.
They include Gichuki, Chairman Nyaga Wambora, Civil Service chief Francis Kimemia, Transport PS Cyrus Njiru, Treasury Secretary Joseph Kinyua, Catherine Kuria, Muriithi Kibuchi, Joy Nyaga (secretary), Macharia Njeru, Isaac Kamau and Beatrice Gathirwa. Kamau and Gathirwa are alternate directors for the Ministries of Transport and Finance respectively. The other five directors are Aggrey Busena, Chrisologus Makokha, Hassan M. Kulow, Joseph T. Denar and Peter Ondieki.
The constitution stipulates that appointments to public institution shall reflect regional diversity while the National Cohesion and Integration Act specifies that "no public entity shall have more that a third of its staff from one tribe." Lobby groups from the Coast have been complaining that Kimunya has gone ahead to renew the term of the MD of KMA that regulates the maritime industry.
Yesterday former KNHRC vice chair Hassan Omar accused Kimunya of abusing the law. "Kimunya is clearly a pathological tribalist going by all the appointments he has made in public from his time at Treasury to Transport," he said and called for his censure. The minister could not be reached yesterday but is expected to issue a statement next week. Source Nairobi star
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2012 6:13:43 GMT 3
SATURDAY, 05 MAY 2012 00:00 BY MWENDA NJOKA Amos Kimunya in his office. Photo/Chrispinus Wekesa There is something particularly bizarre in the way Transport Minister Amos Muhinga Kimunya conducts his official duties. When, as Finance Minister in 2008 he faced a public storm and calls to resign over the apparently irregular and highly controversial sale of the Grand Regency Hotel, Kimunya publicly—and rather arrogantly, I daresay—declared, “I would rather die than resign!”
A few days later Finance Minister Amos Kimunya was forced to eat the humble pie. Parliament passed a vote of no confidence in him and he had to resign to pave way for an independent investigation into the Grand Regency Scandal. The investigation, we are told, cleared Kimunya of any wrong doing in the sale of Grand Regency Hotel to Libyans for what many Kenyans considered a pittance.
The hotel, then property of the Republic of Kenya courtesy of Kamlesh Pattni and the Goldenberg shenanigans, was valued at about US$120million (about KShs 10.2billion) when Amos Kimunya as Finance Minister sanctioned its sale to a shadowy group said to be cronies of the late Libyan strongman Muamar Gadaffi for just US$ 45million (about KShs3.8billion).
But in the lexicon of the ‘independent’ investigation commission that probed the sale, the wanton degradation of the value of this public property did not constitute an irregularity! Clearly, if someone had entered the Grand Regency Probe Commission in the Guinness Book of Records competition for the “Most Warped Logic” award, the Commission would have won hands down.
Now officially declared cleared and apparently white as snow, Kimunya sauntered back to the cabinet after several months of political hibernation. And true to character, Kimunya now Minister for Transport, is back in the news displaying even more political haughtiness and excessive hubris. A few weeks ago, Kimunya constituted a new board of directors to oversee the management of the strategic (and very lucrative) Kenya’s sole sea port of entry—Kenya Ports Authority (KPA).
Nothing wrong with the Minister for Transport appointing a new board for KPA, that is perfectly within his ministerial mandate. What is patently wrong though is for the minister to skew the appointments in favour of one particular community—the Kikuyu—as if the rest of Kenyan communities do not matter.
Seven out of the thirteen board members appointed by Minister Kimunya come from Central Kenya—at least judging by their names, and names are pretty reliable indicators of one’s ethnic background in this country. I have nothing personal or otherwise against the Kikuyu or any other community in the country. If anything, I being a Meru, I would say we have filial relations with the Kikuyu community, not to mention other relations.
But that does not change my perception when it comes to issues of justice, fairness and equity in public appointments and sharing of national resources. I would still hold the same view—that Amos Kimunya is blatantly wrong—if he had appointed my own kith and kin in a similarly disproportionate manner to the board of KPA or any other public body.
The people Kimunya gazetted for KPA board may be very qualified professionals with a string of degrees and experience stretching from here to Australia, but that is beside the point. The real point here is the issue of being perceptive and sensitive to interests and needs of all Kenyan communities when it comes to public appointments.
Insensitivity and failure to recognise other communities’ interests is the demon seed that breeds political discord, conflict and clashes. Such political tactlessness borders on treasonable acts. Many fair-minded Kenyans—myself included—have raised our voices over and over against the coastal group, Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) for its anti-nationalistic stance.
But clearly, with Cabinet Ministers like Amos Kimunya being so insensitive to interests and needs of other communities—besides his own—only a blind person would fail to concede that indeed MRC has some genuine grievances when it says that Coast people have been marginalized. Whereas one finds the catchphrase of MRC that “Pwani si Kenya” (Coast is not part of Kenya) a complete abomination, when you look at actions of Ministers such as Kimunya, you reluctantly concede that MRC is not the real enemy, politicians like Kimunya are!
Now, where I come from (and I believe even where the Transport Minister hails from) the name “Kimunya” means someone who uproots or destroys stuff for the sake of it. Now, is it that Amos Kimunya has chosen to live up to his name or is it that he simply doesn’t get it?
Could it possibly be that Kimunya is not aware that we live in a new Kenya where ways of the old when Ministers rode roughshod on citizens appointing only their kith and kin to key positions are neither acceptable nor palatable?
It is completely out of sync with the letter and spirit of the new Constitution and reeks of extreme political arrogance for Minister Kimunya to appoint 53.8% of KPA board of directors from one ethnic community. With such Ministers should we really be surprised that some communities feel like they are not part of Kenya? I don’t think so.www.the-star.co.ke/opinions/mwenda-njoka/74334-kimunya-this-is-new-kenya-with-new-standards-for-appointments
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Post by tnk on May 9, 2012 18:04:16 GMT 3
www.the-star.co.ke/national/national/74845-ports-board-suspended-over-ethnic-guidelines== In yesterday's ruling, Kimunya was also stopped from appointing any replacements until the case is concluded. “ Behind the beautiful veil of a ministerial decision, an ugly contravention or violation of the law may exist. I am not in any way saying the minister deliberately violated the law, what I am saying is that the matter, the issues raised by the applicant are primarily debatable for judicial determination,” Justice Warsame said ==
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Post by phil on May 9, 2012 18:59:30 GMT 3
www.the-star.co.ke/national/national/74845-ports-board-suspended-over-ethnic-guidelines== In yesterday's ruling, Kimunya was also stopped from appointing any replacements until the case is concluded. � Behind the beautiful veil of a ministerial decision, an ugly contravention or violation of the law may exist. I am not in any way saying the minister deliberately violated the law, what I am saying is that the matter, the issues raised by the applicant are primarily debatable for judicial determination,� Justice Warsame said == This is exactly what I told Mr. Know-it-all Daniel Waweru but he opted to throw unsavory insults instead. This is not a political matter but a legal issue. So where's Kamale to tell Judge Warsame how wrong he is? Safaricom-shares-sale-is-not-a-fish-market Kimunya must be stopped in his tracks so that he can no longer lord over Kenyans with such shameless impunity. I understand he is earmarked for the energy docket now that Turkana has discovered oil. God forbid!
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Post by mugabe on May 9, 2012 23:23:29 GMT 3
Phil
Don't expect much from Kamale he will defend the indefensible and marshall the most ridiculous arguments while doing so.
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