n Mulele Ingonga, CBS, OGW, is Kenya’s Director of Public Prosecutions. President William Ruto nominated him in August 2023; Parliament approved the choice, and the appointment was formalized in Gazette Notice on 20 September 2023 for an eight-year term. He was sworn in at State House on 25 September 2023. A career prosecutor and administrator, Ingonga holds an LLB from Moi University, a Post-Graduate Diploma from the Kenya School of Law, and an LLM in Law, Governance and Democracy from the University of Nairobi. He joined public service in 2006 as a Registrar of Titles at the Ministry of Lands, moved to the ODPP in 2014 as a Senior Principal Prosecution Counsel, and rose to Senior Assistant Director and Regional Coordinator for North Eastern before becoming DPP. Since taking office, Ingonga has led implementation of the ODPP Strategic Plan 2023–2027, which aligns prosecutions to Vision 2030 and the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda, and he has pushed regional cooperation and technology adoption in tackling emerging crimes. He has also been listed by ODPP communications as holding state honours (CBS and OGW) and, in 2024, was elected President of the Africa Prosecutors’ Association; conference materials further note his presidency of the Eastern Africa Association of Prosecutors.