Larry Madowo Supports the President on the Contentious Appointment That Tore the Country Apart

Once in a while, Larry Madowo jots down a pretty sensible article that makes you think…deeply and enables us to see our faults as Kenyans.

And his latest Front Row Column certainly gave this country a lot to think about. He wrote about the appointment of Ngugi Wa Njoroge as the CBK governor, an issue that has had people squabbling over what they call a ‘tribal appointment’ since Uhuru and Ngugi belong to the same ethnic group.

Those against it have said that Uhuru has favored his kinsmen but those who are more realistic have seen beyond his name and noticed that this guy is qualifies, over qualified even.

The president recently condemned his detractors for not seeing beyond the man’s name saying that he didn’t appoint him based on his ethnicity but his papers. Something that Larry agrees on and calling us bigots for being so tribally inclined that we cannot not see that this guy is qualified.

This is what Larry writes” If you read Dr Patrick Ngugi Njoroge’s resumé, you want to run to the nearest university and register for another degree. To say that the man is learned is to grievously understate his academic achievements.

The Mang’u High School alumnus read economics at the University of Nairobi and took it all the way to Yale, where he earned his doctorate. He has spent the last two decades in the inner sanctum of the International Monetary Fund, looking after the world’s money.

Surely, a man that accomplished is suitably qualified to be the governor of the Central Bank of Kenya. Apparently not, according to tribalists everywhere.”

Check out the whole article here