With Thursday’s Cabinet appointments, President William Ruto effectively concluded his drawn-out surrender to Kenya’s establishment, the so-called dynasties.
Ruto won the presidency on the promise of working to remake our political economy – to knock off the “dynasties” from their monopolistic perch, and make the economy fairer for all Kenyans (especially the poorest among us).
He also promised to eschew the old politics of ethnic censuses and elite deals that for decades served to demobilise any hint of real popular influence on public policy.
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