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Politicians funding criminal gangs for 2022, says report

Graphics showing areas dominated by gangs in Nairobi. [Courtesy]

Politicians are recruiting criminal gangs they plan to use to intimidate opponents in the run-up to the 2022 General Election, a new report has warned.

It says as happens around almost every election time in Kenya, criminal gangs are running illicit businesses and have hijacked essential services in Nairobi and Mombasa to partly mobilise campaign money for the politicians.

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