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How Hosea Kiplagat outwitted rivals in long sports career at Athletics Kenya (AK)

Family Bank CEO Peter Munyiri presents a dummy cheque of Sh 10 million to the former Athletics kenya President Isaiah Kiplagat towards the family Bank Eldoret Half Marathon scheduled for October 4, 2015 in Eldoret. Kiplagat's peers and enemies remember him as a calculating, ruthless leader  (PHOTO: DENNIS OKEYO/ STANDARD)

In October 2014, 14 of Athletics Kenya’s 16 branch chairmen called for a Special General Meeting to oust Isaiah Kiplagat.

Since they had the numbers, the officials believed they had finally outmaneuvered Kiplagat, who took over the reins of the association in 1992. But Kiplagat had a card up his sleeve.

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