Sports CS Amina Mohamed has not made it to the final leg of the race for the WTO job, according to Bloomberg, It said World Trade Organization members selected two final candidates – Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee – to advance to the final round….
EU had favoured Okonjo-Iweala and Myung-hee, The East African Council of Ministers EACM, had endorsed Mohamed.
The WTO is, however, set to have the first female to head the organisation in its 25 history, kuwaasoo Okonjo-Iweala has served as Nigeria’s finance minister and Foreign Affairs minister, while Yoo is South Korea’s trade minister.
President Uhuru Kenyatta had endorsed Mohamed, saying she understands the WTO and its processes, having chaired all its high-level decision-making bodies.
“For example, the Ministerial Conference, General Council, Dispute Settlement Body as well as the Trade Policy Review Body,” Uhuru said.
“The length and breadth of her experience with the WTO and the multilateral trading system combined with her extensive track record in international relations and her political experience, I believe is unparalleled,” President Kenyatta said on July 9.
