Wilson Ndolo Ayah

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Wilson Ndolo Ayah (born April 29, 1932 in Kisumu , Nyanza Province , Kenya ; † March 16, 2016 in Nairobi ) was a Kenyan politician and economic manager who was foreign minister between 1990 and 1993.

Life

Member of the National Assembly

After attending the Maseru School, Ayah completed a degree in agricultural sociology at Makerere University in Kampala and at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , completing a Master of Science degree (M.Sc.).

In the elections of December 1969 he was elected as a candidate of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) for the first time as a member of the National Assembly and represented the constituency of Kisumu Rural until his defeat in the 1974 elections .

He then became a member of the Board of Directors of the National Construction Corporation . Subsequently, from December 1976 to November 1979 he was chairman of the Catering Levy Trustees , a trustee committee subordinate to the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife for the administration of duties from the catering trade. On April 5, 1978, he also became a member of the Labor Advisory Council .

Minister in the Governments of President Arap Moi

In the 1983 elections he was re-elected a member of the National Assembly in the constituency of Kisumu Town , but swapped constituencies in the 1988 elections with then Foreign Minister Robert Ouko and was then re-elected as a member of the Kisumu Rural constituency. In the 1992 elections he lost his constituency to Peter Anyang 'Nyong'o , but remained an appointed member of the National Assembly until 1997.

On August 18, 1987, he was appointed to the government for the first time by President Daniel arap Moi and took over the office of Minister for Science, Research and Technology.

He then succeeded Robert Ouko as Foreign Minister and Minister for International Cooperation as part of a cabinet reshuffle in 1990 and held this ministerial office until he was replaced by Kalonzo Musyoka in 1993.

As Foreign Minister, he summoned several Western ambassadors to Kenya to the Foreign Ministry in November 1991. He accused the US Ambassador Smith Hempstone of trying to overthrow the Arap Moi government, to encourage dissidents to violate the law and to manage the opposition. He described Hempstone as a racist and regretted that US President George HW Bush had appointed a diplomat of Hempstones caliber as ambassador to Nairobi.

Afterwards he was Minister for Transport and Communication and also acted temporarily as treasurer of KANU.

After leaving the National Assembly, Ayah became the first chairman of the board of the newly founded telecommunications company Safaricom in 1997 and subsequently developed it into the largest telephone company in East Africa .

In 2001, the Kenya Court of Appeal brought a case to the repayment of a loan from Ayah to the National Bank of Kenya and the legal authorization of a lawyer.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former Cabinet Minister Ndolo Ayah is dead ( Memento from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Kenya Gazette , Dec. 19, 1969
  3. ↑ Kenya Gazette, August 2, 1974
  4. ↑ Kenya Gazette, October 24, 1975
  5. ↑ Kenya Gazette, December 10, 1976
  6. ↑ Kenya Gazette, November 2, 1979
  7. ↑ Kenya Gazette, April 14, 1978
  8. ↑ Kenya Gazette, March 15, 1988
  9. ↑ quest for justice , p. 7
  10. ↑ Kenya Gazette, August 21, 1987
  11. ↑ Keith B. Richburg: Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa , 2009, ISBN 0-46502-101-8
  12. ↑ Koigi Wa Wamwere: I Refuse to Die: My Journey For Freedom , 2011, ISBN 1-60980-237-3 , p. 282
  13. ^ Mark Palmer: Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World's Last Dictators by 2025 , 2005, ISBN 0-74253-255-0 , p. 134
  14. ^ D. Pal S. Ahluwalia, Paul F. Nursey-Bray: The Post-colonial Condition: Contemporary Politics in Africa , 1997, ISBN 1-56072-485-4 , p. 49
  15. ↑ National Bank of Kenya Ltd v Wilson Ndolo Ayah (Civil Appeal 119 of 2002)
  16. ^ Dealing with legal quacks (Standard Digital of March 3, 2010)
  17. ↑ Litigation - Kenya: Bank loses millions as court invalidates documents drawn up by unqualified advocate (International Law Office of March 30, 2010)
  18. ↑ Client has a duty to ensure hired lawyer is licensed . In: Business Daily Africa of November 2, 2010
  19. ↑ Security Documentation in Kenya: Should Guarantees Be Prepared By a Qualified Advocate? ( Memento from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Africa Legal Network from September 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Ayah, Wilson Ndolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Kisumu , Nyanza Province , Kenya
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2016
Place of death Nairobi , Kenya