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NHIF staffer was not assassinated, police say

NHIF staffer Mary Waithera. She was shot in unclear circumstances while walking along a busy street in Nairobi. [File, Standard]

Detectives at the Nairobi Central Police station have ruled out the possibility that the shooting of NHIF staffer Mary Waithera was an assassination.

This conclusion was reached yesterday after investigators analysed recorded statements of Waithera's colleague, who was in her company when she was shot in unclear circumstances while walking along a busy street in the Central Business District in Nairobi.

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