Cabinet Secretary for ICT and Digital Economy Eliud Owalo has appointed seven new members of the Communications Authority of Kenya board.

Among those named is renowned Mombasa based communication specialist and ICT expert Mgeni Mboto Hassan. 

Mboto is a well multi-skilled Communication Specialist and ICT expert with good all-round supervisory and technical expertise.Hassan is also a social advocate for youth and community change in Mombasa County.

She is also a political activist having being a founding member of United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Youth League Mombasa Chapter that was instrumental in Presidential and Gubernatorial Campaigns for Mombasa County.

Mboto was a member of the campaign secretariat for UDA’s Mombasa Governor Aspirant Hassan Omar.

She holds a Bachelors in Development Studies & Economics from Mount Kenya University, Mombasa Campus, Kenya,(2015 -2019)

She studied Diploma in Mass Communication and Media Relations at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology, Main Campus (2010 -2012).

She studied at Coast Girls High School, Mombasa (2005 –2008) for her Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), Mean Grade of C plain.

She also studied at the famous Star of the Sea Primary School, Mombasa (1997 –2004) where she did her Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE), and got Mean Grade of B+.

Her very capable with Hands-on expertise in heading overall communication strategies right from the conceptualization stage to the execution and close-out is an added advantage to her appointment to the position position.

Mboto also worked as a Civic Engagement Project Officer with Coast People Forum and Uraia in various civic engagement forums across the coastal counties where community leaders and change makers were empowered on civic rights and importance of the new constitution as well as its benefits to the citizens.

She also worked as Deputy Chief of Staff under Office of the Senator and later a Project Assistant at Renaissance Center Mombasa where she mainly handled youth led initiatives through organizing and linking various youth with relevant stakeholders handling different issues pertaining to the youth and community.

Mboto was also a Kenyan Representative at the 2020 OpenGov Digital Youth Summit organized by Restless Development organization.

She also worked with the Mombasa Youth Assembly which focuses on advocation for policies touching on youth and community at large as well as promoting good governance, improve service delivery and enhance youth public participation.

She also mentors’ young people on good governance and leadership and was the first Female Presidential Candidate for Mombasa Youth Assembly Presidential Election and emerged the first runners-up.

She participated in the training and capacity building of over 750 youth across Mombasa County under the Mombasa Youth Assembly as well as founding member of the Kwale and Kilifi Youth Assemblies.

Under Mombasa Youth Assembly and with assistance from IRI, we were able to conduct consultative program through which we advocated for inclusion of youth, women and People Living with Disabilities in public participation policies by ensuring that was implemented as a policy and was successful in Mombasa and Kilifi County.

Others are appointed alongside Mboto include Bhoke Christine Nchama, Esther Njoki Njoroge, Mgeni Mboto Hassan, Joel Nyambane Okengo, Eric Langat, Alex Wafula Wamalwa and Nicholas Kamuya Ng’arua.

The new team, according to a gazette notice published on Friday, will serve for a period of three years, with effective February 24, 2023.

Owalo also revoked the appointments of Mahmoud Mohamed Noor, Paul Muraguri Mureithi, Jackson Kiprotich Kemboi and Laura Chite who were installed by his predecessor Joe Mucheru in the former administration.