Nairobi, Aug. 19 -- A scramble is underway for chief executive positions in plum parastatals in the energy sector, which is currently awash with mega projects valued billions of shillings aimed at boosting Kenya's electricity production and supply.

The Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) on Tuesday invited interested candidates to apply for the company's CEO role, while the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) advertised its vacant position of Director-General.

This comes barely a week after the National Oil Corporation of Kenya (Nock) also invited candidates to fill its CEO position and replace Leparan Morintat, whose six-year tenure has ended.

The Kenya Electricity Transmission Company also opened the race for i...