Uhuru throws his weight behind Amina’s bid to lead global trade agency
Kenya’s Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed. She has been nominated for the World Trade Organisation director-general post. PHOTO | FILE| NATION MEDIA GROUP
The contestants include former UK Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox, ex-Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Egyptian commercial law academic Abdel-Hamid Mamdouh, and Mr Jesús Seade Kuri of Mexico.
Others are Moldova’s Tudor Ulianovschi, Saudi Arabia’s former Economy minister Mohammad Mazia al-Tualjri and Ms Yoo Myung-hee of South Korea.
President Uhuru Kenyatta Thursday endorsed the candidature of Amina Mohamed to head the World Trade Organisation, indicating she “understands” the global trade rule-making agency.
In the first formal pitch since the Sports minister announced her candidature on Tuesday, President Kenyatta said she is the best bet to reform the organisation, which has been in existence for the past 25 years.
