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Why Central Kenya ‘diaspora vote’ is taking a different path

Bahati MP Kimani Ngunjiri after he was installed as Kikuyu spokesperson in the Rift Valley on 20th July 2018. [Photo/Mercy Kahenda/Standard]

The Agikuyu community living in the Rift Valley have always formed a huge voting bloc that has, in most general elections, voted in line with choices made by their Central Kenya kin.

In the last two elections, they rallied behind President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto to deliver victory to the Jubilee Party.

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