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Raila Odinga's allies kill MPs' bid to alter election date

A cocktail of political interests conspired to defeat a legislative bid to alter the election date and give MPs an extra five months in office.

The Opposition leadership in the National Assembly abandoned ODM member David Ochieng (Ugenya) and voted against the bill to amend the Constitution to move the General Election from the second Tuesday of August in every fifth year to the third Monday of December in every fifth year.

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