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Talk of Gusii party drives wedge between Jubilee, CORD factions

Kisii Senator Chris Obure addresses a gathering at Otamba Girls playground in Nyaribari Chache on 8.7.2016. Obure led other political leaders in announcing the initiative to hold the community’s unity talks and to form a political party ahead of 2017 polls. (Photo Eric Abuga/Standard)

High voltage pronouncements by a group of Gusii leaders have raised political temperatures and lifted the lid on a community struggling to find its place in the national politics arithmetic.

It all started when a group of elected leaders and prominent professionals criss-crossed the region calling for political unity ahead of the 2017 elections.

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