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Illegally connected wires crisscrossing rusty roofs and low-hanging cables without protective insulation are common sights in slums across Kenya.
Infrastructural inadequacies and unfulfilled economic promises have created a dangerous income-generation opportunity for unemployed youths who vandalise transformers to provide illegal electricity connections in the slums.
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