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End of epic battle for freedom fighter’s estate

It has taken 18 years and 16 judges to determine an inheritance battle over property worth billions of shillings belonging to the late freedom fighter Fred Kubai.

Mr Kubai, who was jailed in 1952 alongside five other freedom fighters, among them Jomo Kenyatta, died on June 1, 1996, aged 79, triggering a bitter family fall-out that saw four women claiming to be his widows fight one Christina Gakuhi.

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