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With her abrasive style, Senator Kihika is a chip off the old block

Nakuru senator Susan Kihika. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Veteran politician Kihika Kimani, who died in 2004 aged 74, bestrode the country’s political landscape like a colossus.

His watershed moment was in 1976 when he and a clique of central Kenya political elites hatched a scheme to bar the then Vice President Daniel arap Moi from automatically succeeding President Jomo Kenyatta upon his death.

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