By Brian Karani
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday appointed Saitoti Torome as the Principal Secretary for State Department of Planning.
Born on January 5, 1959, Mr Torome is the former Director for Strategy and Development at the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS).
He graduated from Kenyatta University with a Bachelor of Education (Economics and Geography) and later joined the University of Nairobi for his masters degree in Strategic Management.
Mr is also a Certified Public Secretary of Kenya (CPS-K) finalist.
Prior to joining the KNBS in 2008, Mr. Torome had worked at the now defunct Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (KPTC) and later at Telkom Kenya Ltd in 1991.
In December 2015, President Uhuru Kenyatta appointed him as Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Defence.
In November 2017, court sentenced Mr Torome to six months in jail for defying a court order in a Sh17.2 million land case.
