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Why William Ruto let many of us down in his list of appointees

President William Ruto during the 2022 Taxpayers' Day at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre, Nairobi on October 28, 2022. [PCS, Standard]

In President William Ruto's administration, I never expected that he would ignore persons with disabilities in his list of appointees. That came as a shocker.

With the former regime having had Josephta Mukobe, a person with disability as PS for Heritage and Special Programmes, I expected the number would increase. I have expressed myself here before on the same issue when I noted that the Public Service Commission had initially shortlisted an inordinately low number of PWDs and other special interest groups in its first list of 477.

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