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Cabinet: The ball is now in Speaker’s court

With the Cabinet appointments all but concluded this week, attention shifts to the National Assembly. Members of the House were right to demand earlier this week that President Uhuru Kenyatta must name at least the minimum number of Cabinet Secretary nominees allowed by the Constitution before they could embark on the vetting process.

To President Uhuru’s credit and that of Deputy President William Ruto, the gravity of the matter was evidently appreciated and the list of four Cabinet Secretaries nominated on Tuesday soon swelled to 16 on Thursday — just two short of the 18 promised by the new Government. 

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