ORGANISATIONAL PROFILE
The Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ) is an organisation seeking to improve working of conditions of journalists. It also protects and promote media freedom, professionalism and ethical standards in the media industry. Members work across the industry – as freelances, writers and reporters, editors, sub-editors and photographers. Members are drawn from broadcast, print and online.
The KUJ is affiliated to the Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
THE SECRETARIAT
KUJ is managed under a Constitution by a Governing Council that is responsible for the directions of the Executive Committee and the National officers to whom the daily management of the union shall be committed.
It is composed of the National Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary-General, Deputy General Secretary, Labour Secretary, International relations Secretary, Gender Secretary, Training Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, POranissing Secretary and ten members of the council elected at the Quinquennial Conference.
The principal role of the Council is to provide a strategic framework within which the ICJ Kenya secretariat executes programmes/projects. The secretariat staff are professional people employed on an equal opportunity basis.
Victor Oduor Rabala
Council Member
Angel Wanjiku Ngendo
Council Member
Rawlings Otieno Ondijo
Council Member
Emmanuel Nyamega Gisesa
Council Member
Fre Odeo Sirari
Council Member
Luke Achia Awich
Council Member
Kennedy Epalat
Council Member
Grace Wanjiru Karanja
Council Member
Otieno Isaac Swila
Council Member
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Mohamed Jaffer Mohamed
Organising Secretary
Sheila Wavinya Mutua
Assistant Treasurer
Toepista Nabusoba Wambwa
Treasurer
Mary Daraja
Deputy Secretary-General
Dorothy Chebet
Gender Secretary
Juma Kwayera
Chairman
John Atambo Ngoko
Chairperson
Charles Eric Oduor
Secretary General
Silas Mugo Kiragu
Labour Secretary