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Drama as MPs reject Uhuru's nominee

President Uhuru Kenyatta tasted his first defeat in the National Assembly where his ruling Jubilee coalition has majority after MPs voted to reject Monica Juma, his nominee for the post of Secretary to the Cabinet.

The MPs voted to support a report by the committee that vetted Dr Juma, the current Interior principal secretary, and recommended that she was unsuitable for the top seat whose holder sits in the Cabinet.

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