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My ‘Recce for hire’ idea lands me in jail

By MAFTAH YUSUF | Nov. 16, 2013

By  MAFTAH YUSUF

Who would have thought that one day the government would have to deploy the deadly Recce Squad to patrol the streets of Nairobi because of runaway insecurity?

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