Former Information Communications and Technology (ICT) Principal Secretary Bitange Ndemo’s was made public when he was appointed as an ambassador in May 2022.
Ndemo was appointed by former President Uhuru Kenyatta as the ambassador for Belgium. Ndemo has revealed that his net worth currently stands at Sh. 190 million.
Bitange Ndemo was one of the 21 envoys who were approved by parliament on May 26, 2022.
Ndemo has previously shared how many people stopped calling him when he lost his job at the ICT Ministry. Before leaving his job in 2015, he said he would receive an average of 30 calls an hour. The number of emails also dropped from 200 in a day to five.
“The Kenyan culture is such that people attach value to friendship, but their friends value them for their money or influence. The day I left office, my phone literally ceased to ring. My “friends” had moved on. I found myself checking my phone to establish if I had inadvertently put it off. The phone was fine,” he said in 2015.
“I came to discover that our culture dictates that unless you are useful, you are irrelevant to society. Although it is normal to feel indignant, vulnerable, and angry after losing a job, people around you can make a difference. However, as vulnerability pushes you towards people you know, most within our culture find it convenient to avoid you,” he said back then.
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In the days after he was named as an ambassador, the many phone calls started coming in again.
“I have received a lot of phone calls in the last few days of people congratulating me, some are individuals who have been in touch with me throughout the years while others are people I have not talked to in a while,” Prof Ndemo said.
“I understand that this is human nature, when you lose a job or position many would distance themselves and only come back when something good happens.”
