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Excitement as Nakuru hosts Madaraka Day for first time

President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses the crowd during thanksgiving prayer at Afraha Stadium. [Photo/DPPS]

In the aftermath of the 2007 General Election, Nakuru was a hotbed of politically-instigated ethnic violence.

Hundreds were maimed and killed, and property destroyed in Nakuru as one of the counties that bore the heaviest brunt of the post-election chaos.

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