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Taking oath has profound legal obligations

NAIROBI: The very first preamble to the 2010 Constitution acknowledges the "Supremacy of the Almighty God of all creation". Organs of the Government and indeed all professions and the legal system function on this foundation of constitutionalism - implementation by an oath.

Oath is either a solemn statement of fact or a promise with wording to something considered sacred as a sign of verity. An oath can be judicial, taken in the course of judicial proceedings; or extra-judicial, taken outside legal proceedings.

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