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Tough life of NEP’s police officers


By Boniface Ongeri

A siren on a pole at the Garissa Police Station blares at startling decibels and it can be heard many kilometres away. The moment it goes off, every police officer at the station and the living quarters nearby makes a frenzied dash for firearms and hops into the next available vehicle in the yard in a matter of minutes.

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