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Education CS Kaimenyi’s close shave as angry MPs’ bid flops

Prof Jacob Kaimenyi, the dental medicine scholar of international repute to whom President Uhuru entrusted the Education docket, confronted a personal experience, which must have brought home the literal meaning of the English expression, ‘surviving by the skin of one’s teeth’.

By the stroke of a technicality springing from inability by his critics in Parliament to marshal numbers that would have set in motion a process to remove him from office, the tough-talking Kaimenyi, who has had run-ins with teachers and their unions, could afford a smile last evening.

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