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Whenever he releases statements, his are always terse, pulling no punches but plowing straight in. He calls the balls and strikes as he sees them without any regard to who the victim is. But today, he is easy. Smiling wryly and looking deceptively shy.
From time to time, Noordin Haji, the quintessential Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), would direct his eyes to his mobile phone and when he would lift them up to look at me straight in the eye, I would feel the eyes piercing right into my bone marrow albeit softly. Haji’s recollections of his time in Moi High School Kabarak 31 years ago are punctuated with laughter of distant boyhood memories that seem to lift o the heavy burden of slaying the dragon of corruption the country has heaped on his shoulders.
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