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- ↑ Daily Nation, October 27, 2010: Kenya minister steps aside over saga
- ↑ Expensive Tokyo embassy leads to Kenyan resignations
- ↑ Ndonga, Wambui (10 November 2011). "Wetangula is clean, asserts PM » Capital News". Capital News.
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