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Mithika Linturi: How Uhuru's allies forced me to spare Waiguru

Agriculture CS nominee Mithika Linturi during his vetting at the county Hall, Nairobi on October 21, 2022. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Details of how Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru escaped impeachment by a hair's breadth while serving as the Devolution Cabinet Secretary in 2016 yesterday came to light.

In a tantalizing blow-by-blow account Agriculture, Cabinet Secretary nominee Mithika Linturi told how President Uhuru Kenyatta and his allies forced him to withdraw an impeachment motion against Waiguru over a Sh1.9 billion National Youth Service (NYS) scandal.

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