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Leaked top-secret US cables reveal Uhuru’s take on Kibaki and Raila

By Nzau Musau | Oct. 9, 2016

**President Uhuru Kenyatta (right) with former president Mwai Kibaki.**

A trove of leaked diplomatic cables has exposed President Uhuru Kenyatta’s private views on former President Mwai Kibaki, CORD leader Raila Odinga, former opposition movement ODM-K, Chinese take-over of Kenya’s economic space and apprehension for ethnic strife in 2007.

The cables, released on August 15 by Wikileaks, were drafted from two meetings held with former Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer, Ambassador Michael Ranneberger, the Political Counsellor of the US embassy and Ted Craig, a visiting State Department official on October 19 and 20, 2006.

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