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Echoes from the past - When Moi, Matiba, Wako had a future meeting

By Amos Kareithi | 4yrs ago

Alliance Boys student Amos Wako receives an award from the then Minister for Home Affairs Daniel Arap Moi with a youthful Permanent Secretary for Industry Kenneth Matiba looking on in this 1965 picture. [Courtesy]

Sample this:  A future president, his chief rival and the future Attorney General in a future meeting.

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