{"id":11812,"date":"2023-09-22T11:37:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T11:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=11812"},"modified":"2023-09-22T11:37:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T11:37:09","slug":"former-senate-speaker-ekwee-ethuro-appointed-as-helb-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=11812","title":{"rendered":"Former Senate Speaker Ekwee Ethuro Appointed as HELB Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-46.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-46.png 700w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-46-480x240.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 700px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>President William Ruto has reappointed former Senate Speaker Ekwee Ethuro as the Chairperson of the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB)<\/strong> for a periop of 5yrs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ethuro was the first Senate speaker after the first election under the 2010 Constitution. A close Ruto ally, he was a member of the URP party which merged with TNA to form the Jubilee Alliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ethuro was first appointed by former President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2018, one year after losing his Turkana governorship bid.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the Chairperson of HELB, Ethuro is responsible for providing leadership and direction to the Board in order to meet its statutory obligations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is also expected to guide and support the CEO and other members of the Board.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President William Ruto has reappointed former Senate Speaker Ekwee Ethuro as the Chairperson of the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) for a periop of 5yrs Ethuro was the first Senate speaker after the first election under the 2010 Constitution. A close Ruto ally, he was a member of the URP party which merged with TNA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11814,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812\/revisions\/11814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}