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Education CS Prof George Magoha [Sammy Omingo, Standard]
If ever there was a Cabinet Secretary that Kenyans dislike, it has to be Prof George Albert Omore Magoha of the Education docket. The professor of urological and transplant surgery always wants to give credence to Alexander Pope’s verse that a little learning is dangerous by subtly telling Kenyans they are not as knowledgeable as he is — and that rubs them the wrong way.
When Magoha maintains his silence, parents — especially those who do not have children, and mostly reside on social media sites — throw tantrums more than their real or imagined children do. When he speaks, there is a total meltdown. And rightfully so because the urologist does not speak to please, but to piss people off, and invoke anger, which is one resource Kenyans have in abundance due to several mistakes they made at the ballot.
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