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Kitili Mwendwa: The first African CJ who served for three years before quitting

An ex-solicitor general in Mzee Jomo Kenyatta's government, Kitili had made history in 1968 when he was appointed the country's first African Chief Justice. He was dropped three years later in 1971 when he was implicated in a coup attempt.

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