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Why CS Ann Waiguru must take responsibility for lying about the NYS scam

"By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America," he said. "I regret deeply any injuries that may have been done in the course of the events that led to this decision. I would say only that events that if some of my judgments were wrong -- and some were wrong -- they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interests of the nation." - President Richard Nixon while resigning the presidency on 8 August 1974.

That is the statement that I had hoped the Cabinet Secretary for Devolution and Planning, Ann Waiguru was going to read to the nation on Friday, September 11, 2015 when she called a press conference on the much talked about National Youth Service scandal.

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