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National shock as Kenyatta takes final bow

Pallbearers carry the casket of founding President Jomo Kenyatta.

By JOSEPH KARIMI

Before his death on August 22, 1978, founding President Jomo Kenyatta suffered a number of health scares that were kept secret from the public.

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