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Policeman arrested after head teacher's dramatic abduction

A police officer from Kisumu is among three suspects who have been arrested over a botched attempt to kidnap a school principal in Gem, Siaya County.

The officer, Brian Nyikuli, was nabbed alongside his two accomplices, 32-year-old Samuel Okoth and Janet Adhiambo Anyango, also 32, while allegedly trying to escape after their attempts to abduct Sawagongo High School Principal Samuel Kaunda Ogweno flopped.

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