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There is no perfect crime

I read in the newspaper the other day about police shooting dead a gangster whose speciality was killing law enforcement officers.

It is said that by the time he died, he had shot dead ten people among them six police officers. The story reminded me of larger-than-life criminals of the past such Wakinyonga, the Kangemi-based gangster of the 1970s who revelled in daring and baiting police officers.

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