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DCI, please stick to plain facts

Director Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

There’s a new sheriff in town, and he or she is fighting crime using racy tales that sound stranger than fiction. The tall tales are usually published on Twitter, as they did yesterday, under the verified handle, DCI Kenya.

“A married woman who eloped with a younger man and claimed to have been kidnapped has this evening been arrested…” begins the narrative. What does the woman’s marital status and the age of her inamorata got to do with the crime?

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