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The Cabinet Secretary nominees who were vetted today came face to face with the ghosts of the period they occupied public offices, with the former Kiambu Governor and the ICT Cabinet Secretary Nominee William Kabogo having to fight off the tag of a drug baron during his approval hearing today before the committee on appointments.
MPs vet CS nominees, Kagwe, Kabogo and Kinyanjui
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