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Mzee Kenyatta's dancers demand land settlement

Rift Valley Council of Elders Chairman Gilbert Kabage addressed the press in Londiani town. Kenya first president Mzee Jommo Kenyatta favorite dance troupe has warned President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto that they will boycott the August polls if the leaders don't immediately allocate them land.

About 700 descendants of the Nyakinyua dance troupe that used to entertain President Jomo Kenyatta in the '60s and '70s are still living as squatters.

Surviving members of the dance troupe that serenaded Kenya's first president until his sunset years are now accusing successive governments of reneging on a promise to settle them and their families.

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