Mwende Gatabaki was thrust into the limelight on Monday after coming out in defense of her husband, Dr David Ndii, who was arrested on Sunday night.
Mrs. Ndii called for President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government to release her husband as she recounted how the Commander-in-Chief sent a request to the African Development Bank (AfDB) President to allow her to come back to Kenya and work on a digital transformation of his administration.
The project, she revealed, was intended to help fight insecurity after the 2013 Westgate Al-Shabaab attack.
Mrs Mwende Gatabaki is the daughter of Senior Chief Peter Gatabaki of Thakwa. Mr Gatabaki is a former Githunguri MP.
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Mrs Ndii has notably worked with some of the most reputable firms in Kenya and the world.
She worked with McKinsey & Company, as a Partner, between June 2015 and July 2016. She was tasked with building the public sector practice to deepen McKinsey’s socio-economic impact and grow revenues. McKinsey is a global management consulting firm.
She has also worked as a special adviser to the First President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of African Development Bank Group. At the time she was based in Tunisia.
For 6 years, Mrs Ndii worked with Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) as the Group General Manager. In recognition of the success that witnessed in their digital transformation, KTDA became the first African organization to be awarded the global CIO 100 award in 2009.
Mrs Gatabaki has also worked with various organizations including the United Nations (UN) as an IT expert for 7 years, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) as the Systems Manager and USAID as a network and oracle database administrator.
As Kenyans applaud her, Mrs. Ndii awaits the dismissal of the charge against her husband on incitement to violence through utterances that Dr. Ndii is claimed to have made a month ago.
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