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Refugee beat roadblocks from Kakuma to Eastleigh and back

Police officers manned Nairobi Metropolitan Roadblocks on the Mai Mahiu- Ndeiya road Junction, Kiambu County, on 7/4/2020. [Boniface Okendo,Standard]

A 32-year-old refugee dodged several police road blocks and travelled 1,400 kilometres by road from Kakuma refugee camp to Nairobi to rescue his sister and baby and sneak them back to Turkana County.

The man not only breached the barriers mounted by security officers in Rironi, but walked past 10 roadblocks to enter Eastleigh, which is an epicentre for Covid-19 and has been placed under partial lockdown.

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