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Kenya must act quickly to enforce its new data protection law. If not prepared, the ghosts of Kenya’s political past may once again come back to haunt its citizens.
Events that will shape 2021
Friday January 01 2021
By BD TEAM
Locals take over top EABL, BAT jobs
East African Breweries Limited (EABL) and British American Tobacco (BAT) will from January 1 be managed by new chief executives following the changes announced in December.
Jane Karuku will assume office as the new EABL group managing director while Crispin Achola will also start a similar role at BAT.
The changes come after the respective companies announced that the term of the current managing directors both being foreigners are expiring December 31.
In the last four and a half years Andrew Cowan has steered EABL while BAT was in the hands of Beverley Spencer-Obatoyinbo.
THE STANDARD By
Mustafa Mahmoud |
December 29th 2020 at 01:00:00 GMT +0300
On Mashujaa Day, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang i handed the president his Huduma card and announced that the process of integrating personal data for Huduma Namba was complete. Soon after, the CS officially launched the distribution of Huduma cards.
These incidents attracted a lot of public attention. However, they were both in violation of the rulings of the High Court. In cases 56, 58 and 59 of 2019, the court halted implementation of the National Integrated Identity Management System and any processing of the data collected during the Huduma Namba registration process until a comprehensive framework was put in place to regulate key issues of privacy and exclusion.