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Pyramid scheme ruthlessly wiped out my family

Johnson Kivuti makes no attempt to hide his bitterness. He shakes with anger when describing how he slid from a luxurious life to utter destitution after losing his retirement benefits in a pyramid scheme.

The elderly man’s voice fades away as he recounts the subsequent loss of his wife and son, and the disappearance of another son, all as a direct result of the investment gone wrong.

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