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President Uhuru Kenyatta has initiated critical national debate to address spending in government. The President has led the Executive in taking a pay cut to reduce the country’s wage bill burden when executed all over government. Uhuru knows there is a problem. He has personally said so and even offered a way out. As Chief Executive Officer of the Republic of Kenya, he is rightly concerned since, to borrow a line from renowned playwright William Shakespeare’s Henry the IV, “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown”.
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