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Kenyan senator Oburu Odinga thanks caregivers in Nairobi

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Kenyan senator Oburu Odinga, 83, spoke from his hospital bed in Nairobi and thanked the medical staff caring for him. He said his recovery was progressing on his birthday, 15 October, which also marked the first anniversary of his brother Raila Odinga’s death, Tuko reports.

Kenyan senator Oburu Odinga thanked the medical staff at the Nairobi hospital where he is being treated in his first public remarks since his admission on Thursday, 15 October, Tuko reports. Aged 83, he said he was recovering in a video recorded for his birthday.

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