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By Boniface Ongeri
GARISSA, KENYA: Immediate former Deputy Speaker Farah Maalim has defended the Jubilee government nominees for the cabinet secretaries.
He said the opposition are not in power and have no right to tell President Uhuru Kenyatta who to pick and not to pick for his government.
Maalim who unsuccessfully contested for the Garissa senate seat on Cord alliance said the opposition work is limited to monitoring how the Jubilee coalition governs and where the constitution is threatened.
"The more mistakes the government make the better for us to wrestle power from them in future. Until then the opposition has no right in meddling on the list of nominees to various positions", he said.
He also defended the nomination of former Cabinet Ministers Charity Ngilu and Najib Balala.
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