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Driver to serve life sentence for abetting Cuban doctors' kidnap

By Collins Kweyu | 4yrs ago

Issack Robow, a former Mandera County government driver who carried two Cuban doctors that were abducted in 2019 and taken to Somalia. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]

A former Mandera County Government driver who was ferrying two Cuban doctors that were abducted in 2019 and taken to Somalia has been jailed for life.

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