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President Uhuru Kenyatta declines to disband Makueni County government

President Uhuru Kenyatta receives the report of the Commission of Inquiry into the petition to suspend Makueni County Government from Chair Mohammed Nyaoga. (Photo: PSCU)

President Uhuru Kenyatta has overruled the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry into the Makueni County government crisis, saving it from going down in history as the first county administration to be dissolved.

The President overturned the decision of the Mohammed Nyaoga-led commission, which had called for the suspension of the county government. He said the reasons the commission advanced to back its position did not, to him, constitute exceptional and extraordinary circumstances to meet the threshold set in the Constitution.

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