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Recycling the old, ignoring the young?

Like corruption and insecurity, the latest appointment of 302 parastatal board members by President Uhuru Kenyatta have elicited mixed emotions from all over the country. As a result, questions have emerged about what this means for the present as well as the future of Kenya.

Just a day before the names of the appointees were released, 52 per cent of Kenyans interviewed in a survey said they believed that the country was heading in the wrong direction. These appointments have done nothing to assuage those feelings, and in fact have only served to lend credence to that particular belief.

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