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How promising A-Student disappeared into life of drugs and trafficking

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Daniel Maundu grew up as a promising child owing to his top grades in primary and secondary school.

Maundu, the firstborn, was the family's hope to get out of poverty. However, his dreams of completing university and working as an IT engineer were shattered when he got introduced to drugs in his first year on campus.

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