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Female Police officers during the Budget reading of 2020/21 at the Parliament buildings, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]
A new police uniform is set to be unveiled this morning, apparently in a bid to boost their morale. That makes a lot of sense; when one lives in a tin-shack but they’re prim and proper when they step out of their hovels, they’d have a completely different mind-set. I didn’t mention the big black boots, shined to a point of catching one’s own reflection, erasing the memories of mud and dirt they waded through the previous day.
Sceptical Kenyans, however, say this has got something to do with procurement, who is procuring the fabrics, from where, and at what price, and who’s trundling on the sewing machines, at what pace and price per spin.
I can’t blame Kenyans because just about everything has been politicised, including teachers’ deployment that now happens at the State House. This is what it means to craft a State in one’s own image, as Prezzo Ruto seems so determined to.
