- Kenya Power has made a shortlist of candidates for the utility firm’s next chief executive after an aborted bid to hire an expatriate.
- The board of the power firm identified seven candidates, all insiders in the energy sector, for interviews for a job that attracted 29 applicants.
Kenya Power has made a shortlist of candidates for the utility firm’s next chief executive after an aborted bid to hire an expatriate. The board of the power firm identified seven candidates, all insiders in the energy sector, for interviews for a job that attracted 29 applicants.
Sources familiar with the matter said three candidates — Joseph Siror (the general manager for systems operations at Ketraco), Rosemary Oduor (general manager for commercial and sales at Kenya Power) and Jeremiah Kiplangat (head of Kenya Power’s training school) — emerged top in the interviews.
The utility has not had a substantive managing director since Bernard Ngugi resigned unexpectedly in August 2021 amid a boardroom fallout months after a court dismissed a petition to remove him over past procurement dealings. The year-long wait for a substantive managing director has underpinned the high attrition rate in the firm’s executive suite and board amid reforms meant to steady the company in the wake of losses and procurement flaws.