Ayuo Ketta

A believer of Social Justice and Equality

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@zithobemacheli Karibu Kenya...

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@silasjakakimba @DonaldBKipkorir Happy birthday senior @DonaldBKipkorir . Emjoy this special earth day and year that the Lord has added into your life

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@shaz_oyoo @ShaniaWagema @ed_kemboi Bende isomo ni mpishi afanyiwe ango no...

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@dkmaraga @HonKangata @OsotsiHon @LindaMwananchi @NationAfrica @citizentvkenya @KBCChannel1 @StandardKenya @TheStarKenya @K24Tv @UGMParty @Maraga27 @tv47digital @OchiengPatrick looks like finally, it is happening..

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@uonbi Where marks disappear ......

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@uonbi Hongera sana to daktari. A real gentleman as well.

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@Kvaati Car fully serviced and fueled by Parliament (mileage allowance)
Minimum of 5 staff paid for Parliament for normal MP

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@shaz_oyoo @_Ice_Queen_001 Unatakaje wewe...

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@KarehNamu Karibu Mombasa

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@silasjakakimba Hongera sana to Mary. And welcome to the formidable and winning team

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@otienowill The government itself allows cars of 8 years to be imported. Why dont they start with amending this section of law that all cars being imported should be new. Not mitumba cars...

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@MrKipkalya Number 2 is interesting. Given that Mitumba was demolished.

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@ray_omollo True friendship.

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@gabrieloguda Not a good show. You can't go sexual. You just can't. If this is the FUTURE of ODM, my party then we are in for a long shift

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@njerilynh Smart bois wa Omabei hawajawasili kwa dm bado...

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@Agalfrommbita Mos kode

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FRIDAY PROFILES
Dr. Sally Kosgei: The Quiet Power Behind the Throne
In an era when Kenya’s corridors of power were dominated by men, Dr. Sally Kosgei emerged as one of the country’s most influential public servants, an indispensable figure during President Daniel arap Moi’s 24-year rule.
Born in Aldai, Nandi District, in 1949, she excelled academically from Aldai Primary School to Alliance Girls High School before earning both a Master’s degree and a PhD in History and Political Science from Stanford University.
She joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1981 as First Secretary to UN-Habitat. Three years later, she became Kenya’s High Commissioner to Zimbabwe, one of the few women leading a diplomatic mission at the time. In 1986, she was posted to the United Kingdom, where she defended Kenya’s interests amid mounting international pressure for democratic reforms and criticism of the country’s human rights record.
At the President’s Side
In 1991, Kosgei broke another barrier when she became Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs, only the second woman in Kenya to attain PS status. A decade later, she reached the pinnacle of the civil service as Head of the Civil Service and Secretary to the Cabinet.
Foreign diplomats understood her influence, when Dr. Kosgei spoke, she did so with the authority of someone who had the President’s full confidence. She became one of the most powerful unelected figures in Kenya’s history.
When Moi left office in 2002, television cameras captured her in tears outside the State House. While many interpreted the moment as grief over a departing regime, she later explained that she was reacting to the abrupt and emotional nature of the transition.
Re-invention in Politics
Rather than fade from public life, Kosgei reinvented herself. In 2007, she won the Aldai parliamentary seat on an ODM ticket. Following the disputed 2007 election, she joined the mediation team led by Kofi Annan that helped forge the Grand Coalition Government and steer Kenya away from further conflict.
She subsequently served as Minister for Higher Education, where she championed the expansion of technical universities, and later as Minister for Agriculture, where she advanced drought-mitigation initiatives. Even as political alliances shifted, she remained steadfast in her support for Raila Odinga.
Her parliamentary career came to an end in 2013 amid the rise of URP and the Jubilee movement. But her legacy in Kenya’s public service, diplomacy, and politics has endured and she was among several distinguished Kenyans feted in the 2025 Kenya Diplomatic Awards, organised by the Institution of Registered Secretaries of Kenya (IRSK).

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@shaz_oyoo Enjoy CPT

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@gacikiraMD Best set book ever done

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We have a PS in charge of public health. Where is she in all this Ebola discourse?