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Bunge chronicles: How to get a flag in Ruto's Kenya Kwanza government

From left: Musalia Mudavadi (Prime CS nominee), Mercy Wanjau (nominee, Secretary to the Cabinet) and Aden Duale (Defence CS nominee)

To all the hustlers who doubt whether Kenya has a place for them - it does. Unless, of course, you are planning to be a waziri. But if you have Sh100 million lying somewhere, you might just get lucky. For four billion, they might just create a new position for you. Oops, they did that already!

Don't get me wrong, it is possible to fly a flag on a fuel guzzler, have traffic cleared for you, have a police officer carrying your handbag and everything else that a waziri does, but the job demands a set of skills not common among honest and hardworking folk classified as hustlers.

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