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A super CS drowning in a pool of borrowed billions

Full hands: Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development Cabinet Secretary James Macharia. [Wilberforce Okwiri)

Nairobi, Kenya: If money is power, then James Macharia, the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and Infrastructure, is truly a powerful man.

And if money changes people, then it may have found the perfect candidate in the former managing director of NIC Bank and alumni of the University of Nairobi.

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