It may have been couched as a formal event to launch the government's ambitious Universal Health Coverage scheme and various other projects, but the real import of President Uhuru Kenyatta's visit to Kisumu was profoundly political.
It was all about the President visiting the stronghold of Opposition leader Raila Odinga, and selling and cementing the "handshake" pact between the two perennial rivals.
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