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Danger, death and survival at border police station

The Kenya-Somalia border control post at Mandera.

On a hot lazy afternoon, a tale is told at the Mandera Police Post of a certain senior officer newly uprooted from the comforts of the capital city and deployed to the station.

Having never been to that part of the country, the new officer contracted a Government driver and a Government car to shuttle him to his new destination.

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