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A few hours after Rashid Echesa was sworn in as Cabinet Secretary for Sports and National Heritage on Friday evening, he sat with his face buried in his palms on an open bench in a busy restaurant in Nairobi.
Behind him was a group of teenagers huddled around a phone, playing loud video games. Seated across him was a young couple, having hushed conversation, lost in their own world. Waiters scurried past him oblivious of the fact that the sleepy stranger staring lazily at the tattered menu had spent part of the day hi-fiving President Uhuru Kenyatta and being installed as a Cabinet Secretary in a crucial ministry.
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