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The Minister of Finance of Kenya is a cabinet position held by the Minister responsible for the Ministry of Finance.

List

Ministers

The following are the Finance Ministers of Kenya since independence.^[1]

Parties

  Kenya African National Union   Party of National Unity

#	Portrait	Minister	Took office	Left office	Notes
1		James Gichuru	1963	1969[2]
2		Mwai Kibaki	1969	1982[3]	Kenya's longest serving minister. Became third president after being elected overwhelmingly in December 2002.
3		Arthur Magugu	1982	1986[4]
4		George Saitoti	1986	1992	Goldenberg scandal occurred[3]
5		Musalia Mudavadi	1993	1997	Land economist and son of long serving minister Moses Substone Mudavadi mopped up the excess liquidity related to the 1992 multiparty elections
6		Simeon Nyachae	1998	1999
7		Francis Masakhalia	February 1999	August 1999
8		Chris Okemo	September 1999	November 2001	Now facing an extradition case related to money laundering at Kenya Power in his earlier career as Energy minister
9		Christopher Obure	November 2001	December 2002
10		Daudi Mwiraria	January 2003	February 2006	Resigned following the Anglo-Leasing scandal[3]
11		Amos Kimunya	February 2006	2008	Resigned following the Grand Regency Scandal[3]
–		John Michuki (in a temporary capacity)	2008	2009
12		Uhuru Kenyatta	2009	2011	Resigned following the ruling by the International Criminal Court[5]
13		Robinson Njeru Githae	2011	2013

Cabinet secretaries

#	Portrait	Minister	Took office	Left office
1		Henry Rotich	15 May 2013	Removed in office, face charges of corruption; 22 July 2019
2		Ukur Yatani Kanacho	14 January 2020	2022
3		Njuguna Ndung'u	October 2022

See also

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Kenya)

References