The Kenya Power and Lighting Company Limited has elected Kenneth Marende as chairman of the board of directors. Mr. Marende is the twenty-fifth Chairman of the Board in the Company's 94-year history. He succeeds Mr. Eliazar Ochola who served a four-year term as Chairman of the country's national power distributor.

A lawyer by profession, Mr. Marende was elected the Speaker of the National Assembly in the Grand Coalition government in 2008. He made his debut in politics in 2002 when he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Emuhaya constituency. He was elected to the Board by the Company's shareholders during an Annual General Meeting held last month.

Two other new Directors - Mr. Adil Khawaja of the reputable law firm, Hamilton Harrison & Mathews, and Mr. Wilson Kimutai, an investment banker at Quadrix Capital Management - were also elected.