Many observers of the corporate scene may have missed the significance of a commonplace gazette notice by Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma on April 14, announcing the appointments of Abdulrazaq Ali and Elizabeth Rogo as board members of the National Oil Corporation and the Geothermal Development Corporation, respectively.
Was the duo being rewarded with these appointments by the Cabinet Secretary? Far from it. This was a cleverly planned and executed scheme to achieve something else, somewhere else within the energy sector namely, to cunningly force them out of the board of public-listed Kenya Power stealthily without raising eyebrows and causing too much public attention.
