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    "content": "Mr. Yinda is concerned with the bloated size of the Cabinet. I want to take him on a journey down the memory lane. How did we end up where we are? It should be understood that by the time we were forming a Grand Coalition Cabinet, our partners in Party of National Unity (PNU) had already formed an interim Cabinet of 17 Ministers. When we started negotiations, we insisted as the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) that we wanted a lean Cabinet of 20 or a maximum of 25 Ministers. It became very difficult for our colleagues to reduce the number given the fact that the PNU was a coalition of several parties and every party wanted a piece of the cake. So, it was very difficult for them to reduce. In fact, they requested that they be allowed to add more so that they could accommodate all the parties in that coalition. After several lengthy negotiations which took weeks, the compromise was that they be allowed to add three more Ministers to make it 20. Because it was an equal partnership arrangement, the ODM also increased the number to 20 Ministers. That is how we ended up where we are now. If our partners want to reduce the number of Ministers to ten, we are also prepared to reduce that number. It is not a problem."
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