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Al Shabaab now turn to Kenyan prisons for recruits

Kamiti maximum prison. Photo: WILLIS AWANDU

James Ouma, a robbery with violence suspect, has two stark choices.

Mr Ouma (not his real name) can take an offer from Al Shabaab for bail and leave prison as the newest recruit of the militant group or turn it down and continue languishing in the dark, filthy and lice-infested cells of Industrial Area Remand Prison, with the chilling possibility of having a date with the hangman.

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