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Burma market: How one man turned camel bones into millions

Robert Karanja aka Waria [Photo: Courtesy]

It is a sunny day in Burma Market and workers at Karanja’s shop are busy loading bags of bones into one his vehicles and motorbikes parked by the roadside.

Clothed in a khaki trouser, blue shirt, a white coat and gumboots, the-40-year old makes several trips in and out of his warehouse which is packed with piles of camel heads and bones in a refrigerator.

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