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Untold story of Kenya’s 'perfect' prison escape

  • This is what happens when an inmate outsmarts a system and his jailers become jailbirds
  • Unfortunately, the inmate’s friends were collateral damage

To break out of a Kenyan prison, you do not need the dare-devilish plan of Redoine Faid; the French-Algerian robber who recently broke out of a Paris prison with the aid of a hijacked helicopter. Neither do you need the mind-boggling twists and turns of Michael Scofield and his co-accomplices in the hit TV series, Prison Break.

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