PRESIDENT Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto are appointing special advisers, probably nine each. This risks undermining the widely applauded technocratic character of the new government because many of the mooted names are failed politicians. There is already a potential problem in the new government that a technocratic Cabinet Secretary may clash with a technocratic Principal Secretary. They will both think that they know best, as they are both experts, unlike in past governments where the minister was the politician and the PS was the technocrat or bureaucrat. This overlap is not...
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