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Inside the secret lives of Omar and the Keroche heiress he dared to love

Omar Lali and Tecra Muigai on Christmas eve 2019.

By the time Tecra Muigai Karanja fell to her death in a rental house in Lamu’s Shela village, she and her lover Omar Lali Omar were just a month away from a wedding.

Their two families had discussed it and a date was set, following Omar’s proposal next to a picturesque waterfall that perhaps signified the freefall their relationship had been in since they first met on June 6, 2019.

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