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Message from the Minister

Hon. Christopher Mogere Obure, EGH, M.P., Minister for Public Works was born on 29th September 1943 in Gucha District, Nyanza Province. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of East Africa at the University College of Nairobi.

He was awarded Medal of Elder of Golden Heart (EGH) on December 1999.
He worked with East African Bata Shoe Company Ltd. from June 1968 to June 1970 as an assistant Company Secretary. As a result of his dedication and hard work, he was promoted as the Company Secretary on June 1970 until June 1974.  

Between 1974 and 1976, he served as the Company Secretary with the Kenya Breweries Ltd. Due to his productivity and tireless efforts towards the same organization, he was appointed as the Group Company Secretary and Director of Kenya Breweries Ltd. until the year 1993.
He was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Majoge / Basin Constituency, Kisii District in the year 1983 where he served for one term. In the year 1988, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bobasi Constituency, Gucha District the position he has retained up to date.
He is a registered member with Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators (UK), Kenya Institute of Public Secretaries (KIPS) and also member of Kenya Institute of Management (KIM).
He has held various positions in Community Service which include; Kenya Football federation chairman, Kenya African National Union Secretary (KANU), KANU Chairman, Gucha District Branch and Member of the Governing Council of the ruling party, Deputy National Treasurer (KANU),team leader Bobasi Orange Referendum Campaign team, LDP Chairman, Bobasi branch and also the ODM Chairman, Bobasi Branch and a member of ODM plenary representing Nyanza province.
He once served as the Vice President at the Nairobi University College Students Organization in 1966 and 1967.In the year 1974 to 1978, he served as the Kenya Football League Secretary.  
He started his Civil Service career way back in 1983 where he held the position of Assistant Minister in three Ministries until 1999.They included Min. of Labour, Min. of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation and also Min. of Transport and Communications.  Since 1999 and its subsequent years he has served as a minister in the following Ministries: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation, Ministry of Finance and on April 2008, he was appointed as the Minister for Public Works.

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Message from the Assistant Minister

Festus Mwangi Kiunjuri, the Assistant Minister in the ministry of Public Works was previously the Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Water and Irrigation before being appointed to the Ministry of Public Works in the same capacity. He has also served as an Assistant Minister for Energy. He is the Member of Parliament for Laikipia East.
He was born on 29 April, 1969. Kiunjuri attended school in Muranga district before joining Moi University in Eldoret for his Bachelor’s degree of Education where he graduated in 1994. He is currently studying for a bachelor of Law degree at the University of Nairobi.

Before venturing into politics he taught at Kiaritha-ini Secondary School. He was first elected to Parliament on a Democratic Party of Kenya (DP) ticket in 1997, and successfully retained his seat in the 2002 and 2007 elections.  He has also served as the chairman of the Democratic Youth Initiative and was the vice chairman of the Parliamentary Investment Committee during his first term in Parliament.

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Message from the Permanent Secretary

Prof. John Krop Lonyangapuo has had a steady rise to prominence; having started as a High School teacher in his native West-Pokot District and later going on to serve as a Mathematics lecturer at Egerton University and then Principal of Chepkoilel Campus, Moi University, between 2002 and 2007. In April 2008 he was appointed the PS for Industrialization by His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki where he initiated a number of far reaching reforms that was aimed at ensuring massive industrialization in Kenya. The reforms involved providing an enabling environment for the sustainable growth of existing industries and accelerated development and promotion of new industries.
On 17th June 2010, Prof. Lonyangapuo was appointed Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Public Works by the President during a Mini Reshuffle that involved Permanent Secretaries taking over from Ms Leah Adda Gwiyo who moved to Ministry of Tourism in the same capacity.

Born in Kanyarkwat village on 10th December, 1964, Prof. Lonyangapuo's rise to a reknown Scholar and Administrator was no easy feat. First he had to look after his father's livestock until he was 10 years old. And when he joined Class One it was not for the pursuit of long-term education, but to learn to count his father's animals, and perhaps go back and become a more effective herdsboy.
However that was not to be. "My father decided to send me to school to learn how to count his animals so that I become a better herdsboy," he says. While he was in Class One, most of his age mates were in Class Four. He became a laughing stock.
But he who laughs last laughs best. Steadily, a determined Lonyangapuo rose high the academic ladder to become the first Professor from the entire Pokot community, and also one among a handful Professors of Applied Mathematics in Kenya.
The 46 year old professor, who is also the Chairman of Kabarak University Governing Council, started his education in 1972 in Kanyarkwat Primary school where he would trek for over 10 kilometres to school in an area prone to the cattle rustling menace.

He scored an impressive 34 out of the possible 36 points for the Certificate of Primary Education (CPE) and proceeded to Ortum High School in 1981 for his O' level. In 1984, he completed his O' level with Division One grade, emerging among the best students in the district, and joined St Mary's School Yala in 1985.
While in Yala, his academic pursuits were severely threatened after he dropped out of the school for sometime due to lack of school fees. Fortunately, the then area District commissioner Mr. Peter Langat intervened and wrote to the school to let Lonyangapuo finish his A' level saying the Government would settle the fee balance. He was eventually allowed to stay in school and scored three Principal Passes, and joined Egerton University in 1988 to study Double Maths.
He graduated in 1990 and was posted to Kaptabuk Secondary School in his home district where taught for two years before returning to Egerton University for a Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics. In 1995, he got a scholarship to study for his PhD in Leeds University, United Kingdom.
After three years, he returned to Egerton where he taught as a senior lecturer before being appointed Principal Chepkoilel Campus by former President Daniel Arap Moi.
Coming from a community where illiteracy level is about 90 per cent and the norm is cattle rustling and banditry activities, Prof. Lonyangapuo has dedicated his life to uplift the education standards of the Pokot community. His mission is to ensure that more and more Pokots discard cattle rustling and embrace education.

At the moment has helped over 700 students to join public universities under the privately sponsored students program (PSSP). His goal, he outlines, is to ensure that illiteracy level in the district is reduced substantially by the year 2010. And to walk the talk, Prof. Lonyangapuo helped built the first secondary school in Kong'elai Division of West-Pokot District to enable local youth's access formal education. He handed over Karenger Boys School, which cost him over Sh. 3 million, to the local community.
Prof. Lonyangapuo has traversed the whole Pokotland which comprise of West Pokot, North Pokot and East Pokot to sensitize the community on the importance of education. His fight against cattle rustling made the Government to honour him with the Head of State Commendation (HSC) in 2006.
Prof. Lonyangapuo has a rich academic track that has seen him publish over 20 Mathematics journals. He has also published a 120-page book, titled Journey Across the Jungle, that outlines the history of the Pokots, the problems the community has encountered since independence and the best way to get out of the dilapidating and demeaning labyrinth of poverty among the pastoral communities.
Prof. Lonyangapuo is married to Mary Lonyangapuo, a lecturer at Moi University, with whom they are blessed with four children.

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