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Aged ex-MP living in squalor and solitude

Former Kwale MP Kassim Mwamzadi during an interview at his home in Bomani, Mombasa. (Photo: Njonjo Kihuria/Standard)

At a small trading centre known as Bomani, along the Ukunda-Lunga Lunga highway, resides an ageing former Member of Parliament in a cluster of three old houses.

In each house, lives one of his three wives and their children. Mzee Kassim Mwamzadi, whose fourth wife died a while ago, owns a fourth house a short distance away across the highway.

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