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The Commander of the Air Force is the head of the Kenya Air Force. The post was created in 1964 with Group Captain Ian Stockwell of the Royal Air Force as the first commander. The current Commanders of the Air Force is Maj. Gen. Fatumah Ahmed, who was appointed on 2 May 2024.
Commander of the Kenya Air Force Vice Chief of Defence Forces General Francis Omondi Ogolla (12 February 1962 – 18 April 2024) [ 1 ] was a Kenyan military officer who served from April 2023 to April 2024 as the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF).
He trained as a cadet in the United Kingdom and was commissioned as an officer in 1974. He qualified as a flight navigator in October 1975 and was assigned to the Flying Wing of the Kenya Air Force. [3] 1995 – Commander of Moi Air Base; 1997 – Commander of the Kenya Air Force Logistics Command; 1998 – Chief of Procurement of the Kenya ...
General Charles Muriu Kahariri is a Kenyan senior military officer, who was appointed the Chief of the Defence Forces of Kenya effective 2 May 2024. He replaced General Francis Omondi Ogolla, who died in a helicopter crash on 18 April 2024. Before that Kahariri was the Vice Chief of the Defence Forces of Kenya, from March 2023 until 2 May 2024 ...
The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) is the highest-ranking military officer in the Kenya Defence Forces and the principal military adviser to the President of Kenya and the National Security Council. The CDF outranks all respective heads of each service branch and has operational command authority over the service branches.
General Robert Kariuki Kibochi is a Kenyan military officer who served from May 2020 to May 2023 as the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF). He was the first non-infantry officer from the Kenya Army to be appointed CDF as a member of the Kenya Army Corps of Signals, the military personnel responsible for conveying of information.
The President of Kenya is the commander-in-chief of the KDF, and the Chief of Defence Forces is the highest-ranking military officer, and the principal military adviser to the President of Kenya. The Defence Forces, like many Kenyan government institutions, has been tainted by corruption .
Jeremiah Mutinda Kianga (born 1950) is a former Kenyan Army Commander and Chief of the General Staff.He is known for having introduced the principle of Kaizen-continuous development for all officers in the Kenya Defence Forces. [1]