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Slum where heroin is sold like mobile

Smartly dressed youth move freely with paper bags filled with narcotics hawking the drugs. But they have to pay for police protection to conduct their business, writes MICHAEL ORIEDO

A narrow footpath chocking with filth snakes into ‘Nigeria’, an area famed for drug peddling in the heart of Mathare slums in Nairobi.

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