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County courts in Kenya illegal

The abolition of county courts is something that should have happened yesterday.

It is not a secret that council askaris have over time used the threat of arresting public service vehicle operators and small-scale traders, mostly the youth and women, over minor or imaginary infractions to extort money out of them.

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