Days after the Court issued orders, embattled ICT Authority Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Stanley Kamanguya has resigned after resuming workplace on Friday, 25 July.
Kamanguya has written to ICT Cabinet Secretary (CS) William Kabogo to relinquish the place.
The CEO has additionally withdrawn a case in opposition to CS Kabogo difficult his removing from workplace.
In his resignation letter, he thanked the federal government for the chance to serve the nation.
The ICT Authority Board revoked Kamanguya’s reappointment as CEO on 1 July 2025.
The Board cited a number of procedural irregularities within the renewal course of.
It argued that his renewal software, dated 6 February 2025, was solely acquired by the then Chairperson, Sylvanus Maritim, on March 4, 2025.
According to the Board, this was previous the six-month deadline set by public service pointers.
Furthermore, the Board acknowledged that the assembly that accredited the renewal was reconvened unlawfully and with out correct discover after it had been adjourned.
Kamanguya had filed a petition difficult his removing from workplace, however the Board proceeded to announce that he had proceeded on terminal depart with rapid impact.
The Board appointed Zilpher Owiti to function performing CEO whereas awaiting the commercial and aggressive recruitment of a substantive CEO.
Owiti’s appointment was made on the identical day the High Court issued short-term orders barring the ICT Authority Board from terminating Kamanguya’s employment, pending the listening to and willpower of a petition he filed.
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Kamanguya Resumes Office
However, Kamanguya resumed workplace on Friday after a courtroom order reinstated him and nullified Owiti’s appointment as performing CEO.
Speaking after the courtroom ruling, he urged leaders to chorus from politicising his reinstatement.
He known as on the Board and CS Kabogo to respect the courtroom choice and reiterated his readiness to serve Kenyans.
“What we hope for is that primary, all of us are topic to the regulation, so we hope all people goes to obey. Secondly, I’m a dedicated and diligent public servant, and I consider it’s the similar for the Board,” Kamanguya mentioned upon resuming workplace.
He additionally known as for cooperation from the board to additional the nation’s digital agenda.
“We ought to have the ability to work collectively for the higher of not solely this organisation, however for our residents, in direction of empowering them economically and making certain we achieve this inclusively.”
Kabogo Clarifies Removing ICT Authority Board and CEO
CS Kabogo dismissed allegations by former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua that President William Ruto instructed him to take away Kamanguya and the board from workplace.
Kabogo acknowledged he had no directions from the president and that he had adopted the regulation and the structure in managing the ministry.
“It is just not the president’s responsibility to rent or hearth CEOs. That is my job because the CS. Even these board members who have been modified for one cause or one other have been achieved so by me. That we do not need directions from the president to rent or hearth anybody,” Kabogo asserted.
