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I drank muratina with Uhuru in a mud hut - former chief

James Mukuru was President Uhuru Kenyatta’s area chief in Ichaweri, the village where the First Family hails from in Gatundu, Kiambu County. That was in the early 1990s, when Mukuru was a cut above other chiefs.

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