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Why State banned chiefs from joining political parties

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Education Cabinet Secretary addresses Chiefs and their assistants at Kisii Agricultural Training Center on 2/3/2023. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]

Could chiefs, their assistants and the village headmen join political parties?

Such was the predicament the government found itself in when a cabal of influential chiefs with the backing of rich families from Kiambu formed an association.

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