When Water and Irrigation Cabinet Secretary Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa was appointed, people from Western Kenya mumbled that he was given a morsel.
Eugene, he of the Queen’s English, innocent looks and grand march to State House which never took off, had been ‘in the cold’ for more than two years since his last appointment as a Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister during the Mwai Kibaki-led coalition government. He was hungry for a job.