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I was fired from police for refusing to implicate Jaramogi in coup plot

Solomon Mulang’a with his wife Penina Kavutha outside the shack they built in 1961 in Matinyani, Kitui County, when he was a police constable stationed at Embakasi, Nairobi. [Photo: Joe Ombuor/standard]

Solomon Mulang’a was once an energetic police officer in founding President Jomo Kenyatta’s security escort detail before becoming Vice President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga’s lead bodyguard.

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