A new head of the military has been appointed in the continuing remarkable tradition of rotating leadership between the various sections of the Kenya Defence Forces. President William Ruto has promoted Lieutenant-General Francis Omondi Ogolla to full General and named him the new Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), succeeding General Robert Kibochi.
It is now the turn of the Kenya Air Force, as Gen Kibochi, who came from the Kenya Army, took office in 2020, following the retirement of Gen Samson Mwethethe, from the Kenya Navy. The KDF Act stipulates that the CDF and the three serving commanders of the Army, Air Force and Navy shall serve a single term of four years or leave on attaining the retirement age of 60, whichever comes first.
