{"id":115514,"date":"2025-05-24T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T12:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/ex-taita-taveta-governor-samboja-lands-state-job\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T12:03:32","slug":"ex-taita-taveta-governor-samboja-lands-state-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ex-taita-taveta-governor-samboja-lands-state-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Taita Taveta Governor Samboja lands State job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya May 25 \u2013 President William Ruto has appointed former Taita Taveta Governor<strong> <\/strong>Granton Samboja as the new Non-Executive Chairperson of the Board of Directors at the Pyrethrum Processing Company of Kenya (PPCK).<\/p>\n<p>Samboja\u2019s three-year term took effect on May 23, 2025, as outlined in Gazette Notice No. 6470, issued under Section 6(1)(a) of the State Corporations Act<strong>,<\/strong> which empowers the President to appoint board chairpersons for state corporations.<\/p>\n<p>Samboja led Taita Taveta County between 2017 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He is also known for his work in Kenya\u2019s media industry, having founded Milele FM and Anguo FM, a Taita-language station.<\/p>\n<p>The PPCK, headquartered in Nakuru, is a key player in Kenya\u2019s efforts to revive the once-thriving pyrethrum industry, which in the 1980s and 1990s supplied over 70 percent of the world\u2019s demand for the natural insecticide.<\/p>\n<p>The sector has since struggled due to outdated infrastructure, reduced farmer involvement, and stiff global competition, challenges Samboja is expected to help tackle.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya May 25 \u2013 President William Ruto has appointed former Taita Taveta Governor Granton Samboja as the new Non-Executive Chairperson of the Board of Directors at the Pyrethrum Processing Company of Kenya (PPCK). Samboja\u2019s three-year term took effect on May 23, 2025, as outlined in Gazette Notice No. 6470, issued under Section 6(1)(a) of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}