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Mombasa Raha: Randy perverts take over the Likoni Ferry

It is now common for women using the ferry to carry knives and small sharp metal rods in their handbags.

There are gropers, and then there are gropers of Likoni Ferry, Mombasa. Some risk death by mob justice for touching women inappropriately when the ferry is filled to the rafters.

Eric Kariuki, a guard at a private security firm at the Likoni Ferry Channel, recalls the case of a man who was almost thrown into the sea when passengers carried him shoulder high in a bid to feed his perverted carcass to sharks.

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