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- ↑ Members Of The 10th Parliament Archived 2008-06-16 at the Wayback Machine . Parliament of Kenya. Retrieved June 19, 2008.
- ↑ "Clottey interview with Peter Njoroge Baiya, Kenyan parliamentarian | Voice of America - English". www.voanews.com. Archived from the original on 2021-01-16.
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