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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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