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Grilled former CSs fight tag of ‘sacked’ during vetting for new postings

Kenyan Ambassador to France Amb.Judi Wakhungu and Permanent Representative to Geneva Dr. Cleopa Mailu during the vetting process [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Former Cabinet secretaries fought allegations that they were demoted for failing to deliver and handed a 'soft landing' in diplomatic missions.

During their approval hearing in Parliament yesterday, the candidates' performances in their former ministries returned to haunt them, with former Health Cabinet secretary Cleopa Mailu at pains to explain why he thought he was fit to serve in the diplomatic mission when it had taken him long to resolve the doctors' and nurses' strikes.

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