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Baba's last minutes: Blood clot linked to fatal cardiac arrest

The casket bearing the body of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga during the funeral service in Bondo, on October 19, 2025. [PCS]

“We continued CPR and other measures but we could not make him survive.”

These are the words of Alphons Sabs of Devamatha Hospital, where former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, popularly known as Baba died.

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