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Why Martha Karua will make best Deputy President

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Azimio la Umoja presidential candidate Raila Odinga with his running mate Martha Karua. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

One fine Saturday in 2001, Martha Karua was sitting three chairs away from President Moi at a harambee in Kerugoya.

Things were going well, until a local Kanu chairman took the microphone and declared the opposition mad, among other unsavoury things.

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