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Onlookers view the bodies of Jared Ochok and another man killed by unknown assailants in Umoja Nairobi on 04/10/14 Photo: Govedi Asutsa/Standard
Nairobi's ODM youth leader Stephen Mukabana's killing comes barely two years after the cold-blood murder of his friend Achok, a land dealer who built his ruthless reputation by wining jobless youth to his side.
The 'president' as he was popularly known, Achok encouraged youth to form self-help groups that would later encroach on idle land whose leases had expired or nearing expiry. He had loyal followers in Chokaa and Obama estate.
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