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Day Kenyatta went into three-day coma in Mombasa

Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. [File, Standard]

There was a time it was unimaginable for a president to fall sick. But what would happen should the unimaginable happen? Duncan Ndegwa, Kenya's first Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of Civil Service, thought he had a perfect answer.

One day, Cabinet minister Ngala Mwendwa took a delegation from Kitui to Gatundu. After hours of dancing themselves lame, waiting for Jomo Kenyatta to greet them, it finally dawned on them that the old man was unavailable.

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