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Waruhiu wa Kung’u, the chief who cheated assassins for 13 years

Funeral service of the late senior Chief Waruhiu Wa Kungu in Kiambu District in 1952 [File]

Detectives described it murder in the best Chicago style. The assassin had a sense of macabre humour too. First, he saluted, then raised the .38 Wesson pistol and emptied five bullets into the senior chief’s body. The execution took 15 seconds.

He then deflated the tyres of his victim's car, and escaped in a taxi, leaving behind a political turmoil that forever changed Kenya.

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