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Overqualified? All MCAs with PhD lose re-election

An MCA ballot box filled with votes. [Silas Otieno, Standard]

Meru County Assembly boasted a good number of PhD holders in the last assembly, but none has been re-elected.

Only nine of the 45 elected MCAs at the assembly made it back, most of them through former Governor Kiraitu Murungi's Devolution Empowerment Party (DEP). Surprisingly, all the PhD holders lost their reelection bid.

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