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Journalist made Sh400,000 washing, glamming the dead

In 2013, Githuki Nyokabi was an amateur photographer who camped at Naivasha District Hospital Mortuary to meet clients coming to pick remains of their departed ones. Armed with a mobile printer, he took random photos which he would plead with mourners to buy.

Given the thankless nature of his job, when a morgue attendant approached him for a more profitable, he received the offer with open arms.

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