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The rainy and chilly day in Nairobi marked the return of the “politics of tear gas”, rekindling memories of running battles that Opposition supporters and police fought during pro-reform protests in the 1990s and the 2008 post-election violence State agencies’ fightback.
Teary and gasping for breath inside the thick searing clouds of crowd-control gas was Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) leader Raila Odinga who, were it not for the terrifying nature of the ordeal, one would say was in familiar territory given his hardened past in similar confrontations with security agencies.
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