DISPATCHES
Vol 67 No 14 |
- AFRICA
- HEALTH
Last week Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale said that construction of the facility at an airbase near Nanyuki had been halted after the High Court in Nairobi declared him to be in contempt after he ignored a court ruling to suspend construction pending a court case which asserts that the government's decision to allow the facility was unconstitutional (Dispatches 1/6/26 Nairobi pushes back against Trump's ‘America First' health deal)...
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However Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale told the National Assembly on 3 June that specialised test kits reagents and protective equipment are only sufficient for the first 200 suspected cases...
He has since reverted to a formulaic ethnic calculus now relying on regional powerbrokers to deliver votes: Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi and National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang'ula to mobilise the Western Kenya vote; Senate Speaker Amason Jeffa Kingi and Youth Affairs Cabinet Secretary Salim Mvurya – formerly Kwale governor – for the Coast; and Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale for the northern vote...
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Most of his former cabinet was brought back with former Defence Secretary Aden Duale the main ministerial scalp...
The only sop to the protestors was that Aden Duale was demoted from defence to forestry minister though Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki who many held culpable alongside Duale for the abduction and killing of scores of protestors and organisers stays in post...
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On 19 July he announced the return of six ministers which include Defence Minister Aden Duale and five new ministers: Debra Mulongo Barasa (Health) Julius Migos Ogamba (Education) Andrew Mwihia Karanja (Agriculture and Livestock Development) Eric Muriithi Muuga (Water Sanitation and Irrigation) and Margaret Nyambura Ndung'u (Information Communication and Digital Economy)...
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Defence Minister Aden Duale then sent in the Kenya Defence Forces to back up the police...
Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Defence Aden Duale a long-time Ruto loyalist has sought to strengthen his influence in government in recent months we hear (AC Vol 63 No 20 Loyalty trumps all in Ruto's cabinet)...
In recent days Odinga and other opposition leaders and Defence Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale a long-time Ruto loyalist have sought to clear Ogolla of any wrongdoing at Bomas...
When Kenyan Defence Minister Aden Duale insisted that the foray into Congo-K would last no more than a year many heard echoes of the assurance that had justified the country's entry into Somalia over a decade ago in pursuit of Al Shabaab...
