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Day Jomo got backlash from members of the House

Jomo Kenyatta. [File, Standard]

On March 12, 1963, barely three months before Kenya attained internal self-rule, the then Minister for Constitutional Affairs and Economic planning Jomo Kenyatta faced a barrage of questions in the legislative assembly.

Mr R S Alexander, the constituency member for suburban Nairobi had wanted to know from Kenyatta how much economic planning the ministry had accomplished since it was started almost a year earlier.

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