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Chiefs set to graduate after undergoing paralegal training

Chiefs and their assistants during rehearsal at the Embakasi A Campus in Nairobi, on November 30, 2025. [Courtesy] 

Some 5,892 chiefs and their assistants will on Monday graduate at the Embakasi A Campus as the government moves to empower the grassroots administrators in a changed structure. 

Renamed National Government Administration following the promulgation of the Constitution in 2010, this governance structure has been viewed as a tool of oppression by successive regimes since pre-independence with chiefs being the face of government’s authoritarian rule.  

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