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CEO who saved State firm with alternative funding

Kenya Yearbook CEO Edward Mwasi. [File, Standard]

Were it up to some headhunters, Edward Mwasi was an unlikely candidate for the corner office that he has occupied for almost a decade.

The institution - Kenya Yearbook Editorial Board (KYEB) - was technically insolvent, strangled by a Sh34 million debt, and about to be dissolved into a department of a bigger State agency.

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