President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto have already nominated their 16 cabinet secretaries and the country awaits the last two. That done, Uhuru and Ruto supporters seem to expect that the Uhuru and Ruto team will perform better than ministers of Kibaki, Moi and Kenyatta. Uhuru and Ruto supporters are optimistic because they believe in the popular propaganda that ministers who are technocrats will perform better than ministers who are politicians. Here cabinet secretaries are referred to as ministers because they will be performing exactly the same political functions as...
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