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Dire straits

A boda boda operator captured in Kakamega town ferrying bananas to unknown destination. Businesses rely on them for transportation.[File, Standard]

Kenya is a country where our prison warders live like the prisoners they guard. A country in which traffic police can’t afford cars, and the richest man in most villages is a chief.

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