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Nyandarua Governor Francis Kimemia told Nyeri residents on Saturday that when former President Mwai Kibaki was seeking re-election in 2007, the president’s team said “a lot of lies” about ODM leader Raila Odinga. Odinga was Kibaki’s fiercest rival i...
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