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Embakasi residents mourn their MP

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation:: "A somber mood engulfed Embakasi constituency as the constituents mourned the death of their MP Melitus Mugabe Were.
The residents converged at the site of several projects the slain MP initiated in the area when he was a councilor.
Elsewhere in Woodley estate security agents were forced to lob teargas canisters in the slain MP's residence to disperse youths who had come to console the family when they turned rowdy.
The pentagon members led by their leader Raila Odinga visited the family and condemned the murder."

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