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Top ministers fall from grace and the new ones may lack the weight to stop the rot

Two new ministers are the main beneficiaries of the government corruption saga (AC Vol 47 Nos 6 & 8). Amos Kimunya was promoted from Lands to Finance, Martha Karua from the backwater of Water Resources to Justice. They are back from Washington, where Kimunya attended the International Monetary Fund-World Bank meetings and Karua pressed the Bank to back reforms to Kenya's justice system....

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Amos Kimunya, Martha Karua, David Mwiraria, Kiraitu Murungi, John Githongo, New pair tee off, Mwai Kibaki, Chris Murungaru, Matere Keriri, Lucy Kibaki, Muthoni, Stanley Murage, Daniel Toroitich arap Moi, Mary Wambui, Charity K. Ngilu, Alfred Getonga, In the bunker, George Saitoti, Moody Awori, Amos Wako, Kipruto arap Kirwa, née Muthoni