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Are you living in a deathtrap?

When Jane Njeri went house-hunting for her first house in Nairobi a year ago, she was attracted by the Thika Super-highway.

To her, the road, completed about three years ago, offered the perfect commute to her job near the city centre. She got in touch with a housing agent who took her to various vacant houses along the route.

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