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Wamalwa speaks more politics than water issues

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.

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