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Jomo Kenyatta salutes Kenyans during national celebrations in 1972. [File, Standard]
The President was dead. The Vice-President was missing and a rudderless Cabinet was biting its nails while a clueless nation waited, oblivious of the desperate activities taking place in State House Mombasa and Nairobi.
Who among the 15 top officials and Cabinet ministers was going to fit into the shoes of Jomo Kenyatta, whose body was being flown from Mombasa even as they met?
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