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The man who messed up a minister

By JOE OMBUOR

Guts of steel  is what best defines Muhia Gitao, a journalist who did the unthinkable via a daring splash of beer into the face of Kenya’s first Finance Minister James Gichuru, one of the ‘untouchables’ in President Jomo Kenyatta’s inaugural Cabinet.

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