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| Raila Odinga shielded by his security detail during the chaotic FORD-Kenya elections of 1996 |
Kenya: In 1990, he was among the key organisers of the first Saba Saba rally but on July 5, two days to the big day, he was arrested and detained. Supporters of the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) leader, Raila Amolo Odinga, hope history will not repeat itself this time around.
The same fate befell former Cabinet Minister Kenneth Matiba and former Nairobi Mayor Charles Rubia, who had made the initial and formal proclamation of the Saba Saba protests. The government had hoped the mass protests would die in the absence of the top architects—Raila, Matiba and Rubia.
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