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How Kenya's second VP helped Pio Gama Pinto's family relocate after assassination

Pio Gama Pinto (left) with Joseph Murumbi (right). (Courtesy)

Two years after the assassination of trade unionist and freedom fighter Pio Gama Pinto on February 24, 1965, his widow, Emma Dias Pinto, along with their three daughters-Linda, Malusha, and Tereshka-and her mother-in-law relocated to Ottawa, Canada.

Joseph Murumbi, a close friend of Pinto and then Minister for External Affairs (and later the second Vice-President of Kenya), played a crucial role in facilitating their move.

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