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It's do-or-die for Raila Odinga as he moves towards the historic 2017 elections

Opposition doyen Raila Odinga will meet his fate in 2017. That’s when poetic justice will be done – and seen to be done. But my crystal ball hasn’t told me— yet — what the outcome will be. Poetic justice is a concept in which virtue is either ultimately rewarded, or vice is punished.

Either way, the outcome is just. Which begs the question — what awaits Mr Odinga in 2017? He will be requited in 2017 if he’s adjudged to have lived a “virtuous life.” But he will be sanctioned if he’s deemed to have led a “vicious life.” Neither you, nor I — or Mr Odinga — knows the answer to this historic quest. But we know — 2017 is it for Agwambo.

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