Mr Stephen Ojiambo Owaki is the Secretary General of Seafarers Union of Kenya. He has been the Secretary General since 2016 to date. As the Secretary General of Seafarers Union of Kenya, he is the Chief Executive Officer of the Union and responsible for the day today affairs of the union. The union has more than three thousand registered members, all working in the ships locally and in the international waters.
Prior to this, Mr Owaki worked in the Kenya Navy for five and a half years on-board Kenya Navy Ships. He is a form six leaver and trained as an Accountant. He did Certified Public Accounting Course at the then Mombasa Polytechnic and acquired CPA I. Mr Owaki is also a member of Fair Practice Committee (FPC) of International Transport Workers Federation (ITF). He has also been nominated by the Central Organization of Trade Unions (K) to sit in the Wage Council that will be formed to look into and fix salaries in the Maritime Sector in Kenya.