NAIROBI, Kenya, July 2 – The New Kenya Cooperative Creameries (New KCC) has reopened the seek for a brand new Managing Director, marking the second try and fill the highest publish following the expiry of Nixon Sigey’s prolonged time period.
In a public discover, the New KCC board invited certified candidates to use, citing the necessity for “a superb chief with an excellent observe document in enterprise management,” based on Board Chairman David Maina.
Sigey’s tenure, which started in 2015, was renewed twice and controversially prolonged for a 3rd time period in November 2021—regardless of authorized objections.
His second time period had formally resulted in December 2020, however the appointment was backdated to January 2021 by the then Agriculture Cabinet Secretary.
The third time period triggered a authorized problem from David Adema, who questioned the extension past the everyday six-year restrict for parastatal chief executives.
During Sigey’s tenure, New KCC expanded its manufacturing infrastructure, commissioning new services in Nyahururu, Dandora, and Eldoret, because the state-owned processor sought to spice up milk dealing with capability and stabilize producer costs.
The re-advertisement suggests a delay in succession planning and should sign a extra aggressive or politically delicate recruitment course of this time round
