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Changaa seller: I bribed police for 10 years

Kagendo Mutua at the Mombasa Court where she pleaded guilty to charges of selling illicit brew in contravention with the law. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

An elderly woman charged with selling illicit brew told a Mombasa court that she escaped arrest for a decade because she bribed police officers every week. 

Kagendo Mutua (pictured) boldly admitted that she paid the police Sh200 'protection fee' every Sunday for the 10 years she sold changaa (illicit brew) at Jamvi la Wageni in Likoni.

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