President Uhuru Kenyatta has appointed Nation Group Editorial Director Mutuma Mathiu the Kenya Copyright Baord chairperson.
Mutuma was listed in a gazette notice released on Friday where several persons landed state jobs.
Other beneficiaries of the parastatal and board appoints are former MPs Dennis Waweru (chairman Kenya Investment Authority), Nicholas Gumbo (chair Kenyatta National Hospital Board), Joshua Toro (chair National Irrigation Board) and Frankline Bett (reappointed chair Agricultural Finance Corporation).Also, former Governor Julius Malombe was appointed the chair Kenya Water Towers Agency, Noah Wekesa (reappointment as chair Strategic Food Reserve Oversight Board) among other appointments.Mutuma was named NMG's Editorial Director in January this year. He has been central in ensuring the organisation's editorial policy.The journalist is among long serving employees of Nation Media having joined in 1997 as a sub-editor.Those who have worked with him talk of man who trains the best in journalism.He is known as a critic of the system where at times he pens hard-hitting articles on the powers that be.