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With a prayer, Bishop Wanjiru wades into tear gas

Like most things Kenyan, there is a lot of confusion surrounding the eviction of mechanics from a plot near the Globe Cinema roundabout from which they have conducted business for years.

What is not in dispute is that they have largely been squatters on the property because they hold no official title to it. Not that this amounts to anything. As a past Lands minister once remarked, title deeds in Kenya are mere pieces of paper anyway.

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