Three finalists for top CAK job forwarded to Uhuru
The Communications Authority of Kenya (formerly CCK) headquarters in Nairobi. Photo/FILE
What you need to know:
The three, who were picked from a short-list of seven candidates, are Nobert Muriuki, John Kariuki, and Ben Gituku.
President Kenyatta is expected to announce the chairman within 14 days of receiving the three names from the selection panel in line with the new legal regime that created CAK.
The race for the top job at the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) has entered the homestretch after three names were forwarded to President Uhuru Kenyatta last week.
The three, who were picked from a short-list of seven candidates, are Nobert Muriuki, John Kariuki, a former communication secretary at the National Communication secretariat, and Ben Gituku, the previous chair of the Communications Commission of Kenya, which was renamed CAK.
“We have forwarded the names to the President,” said a member of the independent selection panel who sought anonymity.
The others who had been short-listed were Joseph Kagau, Edith Njeru, Daniel Kibera and Harun Keraithe.
President Kenyatta is expected to announce the chairman within 14 days of receiving the three names from the selection panel in line with the new legal regime that created CAK.
The hiring of the chairperson is part of an exercise to reconstitute CAK’s board to conform with the Constitution.
The board will have 12 directors made up of three government representatives, the director-general, the chairman and seven members from the private sector who will be hired through a competitive process.
This will reduce the clout of the government in the board of the communications regulator in step with the Constitution.
The previous CCK board was made up of nine non-executive directors of whom four are appointed by the Information minister, the chairman by the President and three PSs guaranteed seats on the strength of their State functions.
This composition led the Court of Appeal to block the move by CAK to switch off analogue television signals on grounds that the board of the regulator was not independent as required by Section 34 of the Constitution.
The three-judge Bench composed of justices Roselyne Nambuye, David Maranga and Daniel Musinga found that the award of the licences by the CAK was illegal because it was not in accordance with the Constitution.
On December 27, the Nation Media Group, Standard Group and Royal Media moved to the Court of Appeal to seek orders to stop the switch off from analogue to digital broadcast until an appeal by the petitioners was heard and determined.
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