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Alice Wahome's political mixed bag and ghosts from legal practice

Kandara Member of parliament Alice Wahome. [File, Standard]

Fortune favours the bold is a maxim Alice Muthoni Wahome, the two-term legislator for Kandara, has embraced after election losses in 2002 and 2007.

Her 2007 election loss exerted a particularly heavy burden on Wahome, since her petition challenging the result in the High Court was never determined because the judges appointed to hear it - Joseph Nyamu and Philomena Mwilu - were appointed to the Court of Appeal before concluding the case.

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