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CSs should quit if they can't stop politicking

President William Ruto (centre) poses for a photo with his Cabinet on July 11, 2024.[PCS]

In 2013, during their first term in office, President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, promised Kenyans that henceforth, they would be the only politicians in a Cabinet where Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) would be apolitical technocrats.

This declaration might have been inspired by President Daniel Arap Moi’s ‘Dream Team’ of technocrats appointed to turn around an economy that was not performing, and they did a good job.

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