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Food security not assured with clouds swirling over NCPB

The anxiety that accompanied appointments to positions of Cabinet Secretary had a lot to do with many variables including the desire to deploy the best possible brains to the mountain of challenges ahead, regional and ethnic expectations and the desire for upward mobility for the individuals that were tapped.

The weight of expectation was compounded by a raft of pledges by the Jubilee government, desire for President Uhuru Kenyatta to leave a lasting legacy and go one over previous administrations, the looming 2015 deadline of achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and the very expensive choice of government structure Kenyans chose in 2010. Historical inadequacies and structural deficiencies that conspired to derail the dream of Kenya’s Founding Fathers loomed large, now that the country was also in its 50th year of existence as a self-governing entity.

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