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Unity talks to weaken Raila in Gusii helped 'free' Matiang'i

Former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i. [Moses Omusula, Standard]

President William Ruto has launched an onslaught on Azimio leader Raila Odinga's Gusii backyard to slow the ongoing countrywide mass action aimed at forcing the Kenya Kwanza administration to bring down the cost of living.

The President's latest move to push former President Uhuru Kenyatta's point man, Dr Fred Matiang'i, to ditch the Raila camp, is seen as a deliberate attempt to scatter the opposition plans in the Nyanza region.

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