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Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas, noted a British writer. But for scores of Kenyan pensioners, the musing falls dead flat. Retirement for them has been a torturous 17-year battle to retain the roofs over their heads.
A peek by Home & Away into the lives of pensioners who spent their best years working for the now-defunct Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Company (KPTC) reveals misery and squalor.
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