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Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Defence

Aden Bare DualeEGH (Somali: Aadan Barre Ducaale) is a Kenyan politician who served as the Cabinet Secretary for Defence in the cabinet of President William Ruto,^[1][2] having assumed the position on 31 October 2022.^[3] He was dismissed on July 11, 2024 and then reinstated on July 19, 2024^[4] in a different capacity as Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry.

A former Member of the National Assembly for Garissa Township Constituency, Duale served as the Majority Leader of the National Assembly under the Jubilee Party in the 11th Parliament from 2013 to 2017 and in the 12th Parliament from 2017 to 2020, when he was ousted for perceived disloyalty to former PresidentUhuru Kenyatta, the Jubilee Party leader.^[5] He was first elected in 2007 under the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), but left the party in 2009,^[6] teaming up with R