{"id":120849,"date":"2025-09-04T01:07:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/ex-unctad-chief-kituyi-to-head-united-opposition-secretariat\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:07:27","slug":"ex-unctad-chief-kituyi-to-head-united-opposition-secretariat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ex-unctad-chief-kituyi-to-head-united-opposition-secretariat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Unctad chief Kituyi to head United Opposition Secretariat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept 3\u2013 Former United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Secretary-General Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi has been appointed as the United Opposition spokesperson and Head of the Opposition Secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment, confirmed by former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, follows a meeting of opposition leaders at the Wiper Party headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Kituyi is a veteran Kenyan politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Kimilili from 1992 to 2007.<\/p>\n<p>He also served as Minister for Trade and Industry under former President Mwai Kibaki.<\/p>\n<p>Kituyi resigned as UNCTAD Secretary-General in February 2021 to run for the Kenyan presidency. <\/p>\n<p>He later dropped his presidential bid in March 2022 to support former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept 3\u2013 Former United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Secretary-General Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi has been appointed as the United Opposition spokesperson and Head of the Opposition Secretariat. The appointment, confirmed by former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, follows a meeting of opposition leaders at the Wiper Party headquarters. Kituyi is a veteran [&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-120849","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\/120849","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=120849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}