Raila wins Mt Kenya top guns goodwill as OKA principals next in talks over State House bid

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Influential businessmen and politicians from the vote-rich Mt Kenya kicked off the process of identifying the region’s preferred presidential candidate by tabling the region's interests to ODM leader Raila Odinga. It emerged yesterday that
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