Why Wangusi is not sitting pretty at Communications Authority

Communications Authority of Kenya Director General Francis Wangusi‘s term expires in August this year but is yet to re-apply. [PHOTO: JENIPHER WACHIE/STANDARD]

Right from the start it was clear that Francis Wangusi’s term at the Communications Authority (CA), then the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) was not going to be an easy one. His predecessor, Charles Njoroge was hounded out of office after court and boardroom wrangles that went on for more than a year, challenging his re-appointment by former Information Minister Samuel Poghisio for a second term.

Mr Wangusi took over the leadership of one of Kenya’s most important regulator on August 2013 as the director-general for a three-year period which ends in August this year. At the time, mobile phone operators Safaricom and Airtel were still smarting from a vicious price war that had seen voice call rates fall by up to 75 per cent.