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Kenya: The demand by President Uhuru Kenyatta that governors implicated in corruption should leave office temporarily pending probe is now the subject for legal hairsplitting.
Governors backed by their lawyers are now preparing the ground to fight what appears to be an Executive directive, using loopholes in the Constitution. One of their lawyers, Ahmednassir Abdullahi, has set the ball rolling by advising the governors mentioned in a report on corruption to stay put. In the alternative, the lawyer says the governors should consider such a move as resignation would usher in their deputies into the offices for the remaining part of the term.
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