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Patience pays as man, 30, joins police service after nine years of trying

Samwel Ing’olan Lodio woke up feeling both upbeat and apprehensive on Monday morning.

Upbeat because being the day of the nationwide police recruitment, he had a chance—the last chance—to try his luck at joining his dream career. Apprehensive because he knew his chance of joining the police force, to quote a biblical parable, was slimmer than that of a camel going through the eye of a needle.

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