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It costs one up to Sh500,000 for an elaborate kaya anointing ceremony

Kaya Mtswakara Chairman Shaban Ndegwa. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

The man who in March this year anointed ODM leader Raila Odinga in an open ground in Samburu, Kinango Sub-county in Kwale, expects him to turn up for an elaborate ceremony in one of the local sacred sites.

Shaban Ndegwa, a member of the Coast Interfaith Council of Clerics (CICC), says Raila had told him he would return for blessings inside a kaya forest, and they were expecting him in the coming months.

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