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A talk with Kibra's MP: From a shack to the Houses of Parliament

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He was born in Kibera to a single mother of six but made it to Parliament where he wants to change the lives of his people

With human waste from a burst sewer oozing down the main street of Kenya's largest slum, annoyed residents have been bombarding the Facebook page of Kibra constituency's first parliamentarian, Kenneth Okoth, with insults.

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