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The grieving family of the late Bomet Governor Joyce Cherono Laboso stood in the scorching afternoon sun and threw balls of earth to her grave as they bid goodbye to a leader whose death has united a country, hitherto divided by ethnic and sectarian politics.
At 2:33pm, Kenyans, led by President Uhuru Kenyatta, his Deputy William Ruto, Opposition leader Raila Odinga and a retinue of leaders let go of the heroine and handed her body to the family for burial.
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