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Failed hiring, messed firing

By Edward Oyugi

What the country has witnessed in the last week regarding the re-appointment of three top officials at the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) and the attempted retirement ‘in public interest’ of the Chief Executive Officer of the Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) is a testimony of how low we have sunk in ethnicisation of public offices.

Woe unto those professionals who do not have kinsmen of substance in high echelons of politics.

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