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Kenneth Matiba : ウィキペディア英語版 | Kenneth Matiba
Kenneth Matiba (born 1932 in Muranga District)〔 is a Kenyan politician who was the second-place candidate in the 1992 presidential election. In November 2007, he announced that he would stand as a presidential candidate in the December 2007 election.〔The Standard, 16 November 2007: (Matiba set to contest presidency )〕 Matiba placed seventh, with 8,046 votes. ==Early career== Matiba became a senior civil servant at age 31. Before Kenya attained its independence in December 1963, he became the first indigenous African Permanent Secretary for Education (in May of that year).〔Daily Nation, 13 April 2003: 〕 Matiba was mentored by Carey Francis, headmaster of Alliance High School, who lobbied for his promotion to permanent secretary. In 1964, Matiba was appointed Permanent Secretary for Commerce under Minister Mwai Kibaki.〔 Matiba continued to succeed during the post-colonial period, helped by his connection to the Kiambu family of Musa Gitau, one of the first Africans to become a minister in the Kenyan Presbyterian Church (Matiba is Gitau's son-in-law). Gitau also influenced Jomo Kenyatta, having taught him at the PCEA Center, Thogoto, Kikuyu. In the patron-client reward system established by Kenyatta after independence, such connections were important to success in the public and private sectors. Matiba later left his civil-service career for one in the hospitality industry, establishing the Alliance Group of Hostels based on the South Coast. He also invested in exclusive private schools, including Hillcrest Preparatory (founded by Frank Thompson) and Hillcrest Secondary School. Matiba was chairman of the Kenya Football Federation from 1974 to 1978, and was elected to the Kenyan Parliament in the 1983 general elections from the Mbiri Constituency (later renamed Kiharu) in the Muranga District.〔Center for Multiparty Democracy: (Politics and Parliamentarians in Kenya 1944–2007 )〕 He served as Minister of Transport and Communications under the KANU administration led by President Daniel arap Moi, resigning in December 1988.
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