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I did not believe people could conspire to rob a bank, kidnap, murder or commit other acts of felony. But now I know.
That is the beginning of My Life in Crime, arguably the greatest selling novel to ever come from our shores.
John Kiriamiti, a former crook-turned-novelist, wrote it while doing time at Naivasha Maximum Security Prison where he was ‘cooling porridge’ for a series of bank robberies that rocked 1960s and 1970s Kenya.
So daring were the bank robberies that then Attorney General Charles Njonjo made robbery with violence a capital offence through the Criminal Law (amendment) Bill of 1971.
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