Uhuru Appoints Laboso's Husband to Govt Board

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday, October 14, appointed the Late Bomet Governor Joyce Laboso's husband to a government job.

In a gazette notice, the Head of State appointed Edwin Abonyo as a member of the State Corporations Advisory Committee.

Also appointed were Jeremiah Matagaro (Chairman), Wanjiku Wakogi (Secretary), and other members, Winfred Kaburu, Cecil Kuyo, Cyrus Gituai, Tom Maina Macharia, Roselyn B. Tumpeyo and Gloria Ndekei.

The appointees will serve for a period of three years.

The Kenya Gazette notice with the new appointees.

From Section 27 of the State Corporations Act, Chapter 446, the committee is mandated with reviewing and investigating the affairs of state corporations and make such recommendations to the President as it may deem necessary. 

The committee also advises the President on the establishment, reorganization or dissolution of state corporations as well as appointment, removal or transfer of officers and staff of the organisations.

During the funeral of the former county head in August 2019, Uhuru heaped praise on her husband for his exemplary traits and urged Kenyan to emulate him.

The President further praised Abonyo for his integrity after revealing that he never secured a tender from Bomet county government despite being a contractor and his wife being a governor.

He was further impressed by Abonyo's resolve to shun certain customs and traditions like men insisting on their wives to adopt their last names.

"You told us about how when you sat with your family, you decided that we don't have to live in the past. That there are certain customs and traditions that have maybe been overtaken by time and we need to look on to the future and not live in the past," he stated.

Edwin Abonyo, husband to the late Bomet Governor Joyce Laboso