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Why Uhuru should not have fired CS Mwangi Kiunjuri

Yesterday, President Uhuru Kenyatta reshuffled the cabinet, and one of the surprising moves was the firing of Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri. I don't think Uhuru made the right decision by letting Kiunjuri go.

In order to understand how the president reached a point of terminating Kiunjuri service as a CS, we need to first look at how the maize problem began. Because, it is the maize woes that put Kiunjuri out of a job, today.

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