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Ezekiel Machogu during a campaign Nyaribari Chache, Kisii County on February 23, 2022. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]
After suffering one the most humiliating defeats, Kanu, the party which Kenyans had been told would rule for 100 years was thrust into the limelight by reports that it had reneged on its promises to the people of Kipipiri Constituency, Nyandarua District.
During the campaigns in 1995 to replace area MP Lavan Muchemi who had died, Kanu's Secretary General Joseph Kamotho had vowed to mobilise what he called Baghdad girls to counter Baghdad boys who had been deployed by the joint opposition under the command of leader of Mwai Kibaki and the then budding opposition leader Raila Odinga.
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