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Joseph Kinyua, the immediate Head of Public Service, had tried retiring but former President Uhuru Kenyatta could not let him go.
Even other presidents before Uhuru seem to have faced similar problems of clinging on to the same old and tested technocrats who understood "the mechanics of government." The odd thing about this post is that few jostle, canvass, position, fight, back stab or front bite to have it.
Kinyua, one of Kenya's oldest civil servants, was appointed when Uhuru ascended to power in 2013 to a low reception despite few doubting the career economist's stellar performance as PS at The National Treasury. His close rapport with Uhuru started when Uhuru was Finance Minister in the Kibaki administration.
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