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Jaramogi Odinga and Jomo Kenyatta at Lancaster conference in London in 1962. [File, Standard]
When two friends turned enemies insisted on attending the launch of a hospital 53 years ago, they rewrote Kenya's political history with the blood of some innocent Kenyans.
The setting of the titanic clash was the newly built hospital in Kisumu funded by the Russians. The event had been set for October 26, 1969.
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