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Is it strategic retreat or plain indecisiveness for Maangi?

Kisii Deputy Governor Joash Maangi addresses mourners during the burial of Jane Munda Bosire, the wife of former Kitutu Masaba MP Timothy Bosire at Nyamwanga Nyamira County. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]

He cuts the figure of a bold politician rarely swayed by what is happening around him.

For the two terms Dr Joash Maangi has served as Governor James Ongwae’s deputy in Kisii, he has been keen to show that he is ready to go against the grain.

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