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Police pick youths from one community at centre

Controversy marred the recruitment of regular police officers in Laisamis after the local OCPD announced that he was under instruction to only pick youths from the Rendille community.

“Please do not waste your time if you are not a Rendille. This is the instruction I have from Nairobi,’’ Mr Philip Kipkirui told the hundreds of youths who turned up at the Laisamis Stadium on Monday before the exercise started.

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