Nzioka Waita Biography
Nzioka Waita is a Kenyan advocate of the High Court of Kenya. He has been in court for 13 years. He is a member of Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and a Certified Public Secretary of the Institute of Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya (ICPSK).
He is a graduate of Law (LLB) from the University of Sheffield in the UK and is presently undertaking a Masters Law degree in Computer and Communications Law from Queen Mary, University of London.
Nzioka Waita Age
Back in 2015, he was appointed the Secretary of Delivery in the Executive Office of the President. By then, he was 39 years old. According to the report, it is safe to assume that as of 2019, he is 43 years old. This information will soon be updated.
Nzioka Waita Family
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Nzioka Waita Wife
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Nzioka Waita Education
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Nzioka Waita Tribe
Nzioka is a Kamba name meaning which is often named after a dead person. To mean that the dead has come back to life. He is a Kamba. Akamba is a Bantu tribe among the Kenyan community. It is mostly situated in the eastern part of Kenya.
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Nzioka Waita Safaricom
Safaricom’s, Nzioka Waita has been called to the Civil Service by Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta. Nzioka is currently the mobile operator’s Head of Corporate Affairs.
According to a report by cio.co.ke, the 39-year-old has been appointed Secretary of Delivery in the Executive Office of the President.
Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore is happy for his director of Corporate Affairs Nzioka Waita for landing a big government job, but he’s definitely not amused with President Uhuru for poaching his top talent.
The legal mind has been with Safaricom for over 14 years, joining as a legal assistant to the network roll-out team. On Friday, President Uhuru appointed the 39-year-old Secretary of Delivery in the Executive Office of the President.
Bob Collymore retweeted a tweet from State House spokesman Manoah Esipisu announcing the appointment.
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Nzioka Waita Profile
The fastest rising man in Government circles in the last two years is perhaps Nzioka Waita.
When President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday nominated Waita, 42, as Chief of Staff and Head of the Presidential Delivery Unit, he was rewarding hard work, discipline, and professionalism.
It was a resounding vote of confidence in a man who only two years ago featured at the bottom of Safaricom’s list of “directors and senior leaders.” He was the director of corporate affairs.
Ever since the UK-trained lawyer got into public service on April 2015, his star has been shining. President Kenyatta first picked him as the head of the Presidential Delivery Unit. Two years into his appointment he rose to become the deputy to Head of Public Service Joseph Kinyua.
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Nzioka Waita Appointment
Nzioka Waita, the head of the Presidential Delivery Unit, has emerged as the new power broker at State House, multiple sources reveal.
Mr Waita also doubles as President Uhuru Kenyatta’s chief of staff, another position that puts him within arm’s reach of the President, having no executive role at the PDU, since it is run by Andrew Wakahiu, coupled with the fact that the role of the chief of staff is not well defined, Mr. Waita has found himself with enough room to wiggle his way across government departments. And he has the President’s ear.
Speaking to the Sunday Nation, Mr. Waita said power is a matter of perception and he would not be drawn into discussing whether he is powerful or not.
“I am a backroom person. My work is to ensure that the job I have been given is accomplished. I work at the pleasure of the President,” he said.
Since his appointment, Mr. Waita has been instrumental in various decisions that have been made since the President’s second term started.
He co-wrote Executive Order 1, a powerful instrument that determines the duties of each government department.
He is the face of recent demolitions as the chair of the Nairobi Regeneration Committee. He has also been co-opted into the Cabinet and was prominent in Cabinet photos after the last meeting.
He has a refurbished office once occupied by a former secretary to the Cabinet Francis Kimemia.
And he has several deputies. Acting PSCU boss Kanze Dena and Government Spokesman Eric Kiraithe report to him, making him the communication boss for the government.
Mr. Nzioka has eclipsed Head of Public Service Joseph Kinyua and Comptroller of State House Kinuthia Mbugua.
When he was head-hunted from Safaricom to head the newly created Presidential Delivery Unit, Mr. Waita perhaps never knew that one day he would be viewed as one of the most powerful people in the Jubilee administration.
Powerful Man
Cabinet secretaries and principal secretaries, as well as parastatal executives, have been dealing with Mr. Waita, thus making his reach in government far, wide and deep.
Previously, Mr. Kinyua played this role but, as his time in government nears its end, it is Mr. Waita who is slowly stepping into his shoes.
When an audio clip of a phone call between governors Mike Sonko (Nairobi) and Ferdinand Waititu (Kiambu) over the arrest of the latter’s wife was leaked, an interesting tidbit passed unnoticed.
On the tape, Sonko is heard saying that his hands are tied and that Mr. Waititu should call Mr. Waita to have his wife released. It was telling that the elected governors were afraid of the unelected Mr. Waita and not President Kenyatta.
“He is the new (Hezekiah) Oyugi, though not as powerful as the Moi man,” a source with knowledge of power maneuvers in the corridors of power said.
The late Oyugi was a powerful permanent secretary in the office of the President at the dawn of multiparty politics in the early 1990s.
Demonstrations
When importers of Chinese products mounted a demonstration in city streets, shocking the government for their daring act, it was Mr. Waita who scrambled a response to address their woes.
He led a high-powered delegation comprising top officers from the KRA, the Anti-Counterfeit Agency and the Kenya Bureau of Standards to meet officials of the Nairobi Importers and Traders Association, a lobby for small traders, in downtown Nairobi.
He promised them that the President was committed to ensuring that their problems with government agencies would end.
When the Kenya Medical Association and the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists’ Union opposed the Kenya-Cuba doctors deal, he was again at hand to provide a policy directly over the matter.
He said only experts in areas such as oncology (cancer), nephrology (kidney) and dermatology (skin) would be brought to Kenya.
Cuban Doctors
He defended the Nairobi-Havana deal, saying deploying medical experts to rural areas would reduce the number of patients relying on Kenyatta National Hospital and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital.
In June, High Court Judge Onesmus Makau temporarily stopped the implementation of a circular by the head of the civil service on the vetting of procurement officers.
Mr. Waita took to Twitter to air what was considered as the Executive position on the matter.
“Whereas the Judiciary shouldn’t be condemned wholesale, from today’s ruling by the Labour Relations Court stopping vetting of public officers, two things are now clear for all to see: 1) Corruption is fighting back 2) Agents of impunity have found refuge in court corridors,” Mr. Waita wrote.
“No matter how many obstacles are thrown in the way of this fight against corruption, there will be no relenting. It is my prayer that the leadership of the Judiciary upon whom the country has placed a lot of faith will put its house in order. The fight against corruption will be messy and uncomfortable but it must be done for the greater good of the nation,” he added.
Official Communication
In July, Mr. Waita moved to streamline communication in government by disowning several social media handles and setting the record straight on how information is disseminated.
He disowned @PresidentKE and @PSCU_Digital unit as official Twitter accounts and directed that official accounts would be @StateHouseKenya, @UKenyatta, @FirstLadyKenya, and @KanzeDena.
“All official communication originating from the President’s Strategic Communications Unit will strictly be communicated through the listed channels,” he said.
“Operational correspondence by PSCU staff to media outlets will be done through officially assigned president.go.ke email addresses.”
He had also made the announcement that saw Citizen TV anchor Kanze Dena appointed the Deputy State House spokesperson in far-reaching changes made in the Presidential Strategic Communication Unit.
Mr. Nzioka joined the government in 2016 from Safaricom, where he was the director of corporate affairs.
Source: Nation
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