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How President Uhuru Kenyatta snatched Sh500bn SGR deal from Raila Odinga man

Jimi Wanjigi

NAIROBI: Jimi Wanjigi strode into the office of the Prime Minister one morning in early 2008.  Raila Odinga was already at his desk, dipping purposefully into an overflowing tray of official papers.

Wanjigi was not an ordinary fixer. In the grand coalition government, there were brokers and wheeler-dealers. Then there was Jimi Wanjigi, the man who ‘got things done.’

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