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Azimio leader Raila Odinga speaking during the launch of Kigoto maize mill in Suba south Homa Bay County on November 4, 2022. [Collins Oduor, Standard]
One morning in the summer of 1976, the late Njenga Karume and the late Kihika Kimani were in an aircraft flying over Africa when Kihika woke up from his slumber.
He asked his friend Karume; "who will succeed Jomo Kenyatta when he dies?" Njenga turned to him and said "Arap Moi! Read your constitution." Kihika perturbed by Njenga's response said, "can't happen, won't happen." And so he devised a scheme.
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