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Deputy speaker joins race for senator seat

By Boniface Ongeri

Deputy Speaker and Lagdera MP Farah Maalim was cleared to run for Senate in Garissa County, setting off a bruising political battle with Defence Minister and Ijara MP, Yusuf Haji.

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