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Funny gimmicks refuse to go away at showground

Students line up to view ‘mtu bila kichwa’ at the Nairobi International Trade Fair on Friday. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

If the idea that someone can pretend to have a head without a body and charge people to see him was funded by taxpayers, then the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) would be accused of looking the other way on one of Kenya’s longest running scandals.

But at the Nairobi International Trade Fair which ends today, the more things change the more they remain the same. Take the bodyless head for instance. In reality, it is just a person seated below a table with the head, surrounded by some pinkish cotton wool to feign blood, protruding on top.

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