Kenneth Marende elected Kenya Power board chairman

Kenya Power board Chair Kenneth Marende.

Former National Assembly Speaker Kenneth Marende was Monday elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kenya Power Company Ltd. Marende is the 25th chairman of the board in the firm's 94-year history. He succeeds Eliazar Ochola who served a four-year term at the country's national power distributor. A lawyer by profession, Marende was elected Speaker of the National Assembly in the Grand Coalition Government in 2008. He was elected to the board by the company's shareholders during an Annual General Meeting held last month. Two other new directors –Adil Khawaja of law firm, Hamilton Harrison & Mathews, and Wilson Kimutai, an investment banker at Quadrix Capital Management - were also elected.

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Al-Shabaab gunmen take hostages after deadly Kenya university attack

Militants claim to be holding Christian hostages after dawn raid on hostels in which they opened fire on students and security guards, killing at least 15 people Masked gunmen from Somalia’s al-Shabaab movement claim to be holding an unknown number of Kenyan Christians hostage after a dawn raid on a university compound that left at least 15 people dead. The attackers stormed into the university shortly after 5am in the town of Garissa, about 90 miles from the volatile border with Somalia. Kenya’s national disaster operations centre said 280 of the university’s 815 students were accounted for but did not say how many it believed to be still inside. The gunmen were in one of four residential buildings, the interior ministry said. InteriorCNG Ministry ✔ @InteriorKE Follow #GarissaAttack Update: Of the four hostels, 3 have been evacuated. The attackers have been cornered in one hostel & the operations continue. 3:05 AM - 2 Apr 2015 Arnolda Shiundu, a spoke

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