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'Dr Aden' fears journos' questions more than a cold July morning

Health CS Aden Duale at Afya House on 26th May 2025. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

What would get a Waziri all worked up, enough to resort to mchongoano against a journalist? Questions. 

Until recently, Kenyan journos were not known to have plenty of those, at least according to one corporate titan, who once calmed a visiting executive, sweating over answers he would offer to a briefing, with assurances that the local press would not ask any questions.

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