Fight over pecking order turns into packing order

Once again, the row between Lands Cabinet Secretary Madam Charity and the National Lands Commission boss Muhammad Swazuri has erupted, which signals the collapse of mediation efforts that the court had imposed on the two.

The spat is about what was experienced in the previous government, some strange thing called ‘pecking order,’ an invention of the nusu mkate Government, when political operatives on the different sides of the coalition were forced to share power and resources, even when they had no intention of doing so. As a result, endless bickering punctuated the term.