Pray thee, get us more Matiang’is

I routinely come across this and I am sure you too do; that Fred Matiang'i, the Cabinet Secretary for Education either is the best performing CS or one among the best performers in President Uhuru Kenyatta's Cabinet.

Let us introduce today's discussion in a way that jogs the mind. A long time ago, the story goes, a UK paper was forced to apologise for publishing a story that said half of the country's civic leaders were corrupt. The next day, it dutifully apologised to the half "that are not corrupt".