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How a powerful group frustrated Oginga Odinga's efforts to meet Jomo Kenyatta

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Jomo Kenyatta and Jaramogi Odinga at the Lancaster Conference in London in February 1962. [File, Standard] 

In the dying days of Jomo Kenyatta’s presidency, desperate plans were made to reunite him with his old buddy, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.

Three times, State House appointments were made for the two friends to meet. But a cabal of powerful leaders protected by influential Attorney General Charles Mugane Njonjo thwarted these plans.

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