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Jimi Wanjigi: From backroom deal maker to politician

Presidential hopeful Jimi Wanjigi when he was installed as a Luo elder at Oyugis in Homa Bay county on February 13, 2022. [James Omoro, Standard]

Before 2017 few people nationally knew what the Safina presidential candidate Mr Jimi Wanjigi aka “James Bond” looked like.

He is a man whose influence in the chess game of power making had only been whispered from the days of President Mwai Kibaki government.

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