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Jaramogi Oginga Odinga addresses a rally in 1964. [File, Standard]
Thirty years ago on January 20 gloom engulfed the country following the fall of one of the country's opposition doyens - Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.
In Nyanza, where his Oteku "absolute power" swept through with the potency of venom, the weather was dreary; some even said it signaled the fall of a hero.
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