For two unbroken terms of three years each, banker John Ngumi sat at the helm of the tumultuous Kenya Pipeline Company board. Chief executives run state corporations, and jealously guard these operational prerogatives,” he says. This is a simple, straightforward business, whose positive impact should be felt without fanfare or din.I don’t appoint myself, and I don’t lobby for appointments. That state corporations have their logic and dynamic, working through governance and oversight structures, difficult for private sector people fully to comprehend. Balancing the requirements and demands of all the entities that have a say in the running of state corporation’s calls for special skills, which are not readily taught.

Source: Standard Digital July 07, 2020 09:11 UTC