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Slum dwellers get reprieve from illegal power sellers

Illegally connected wires crisscrossing rusty roofs and low-hanging cables without protective insulation are common sights in slums across Kenya.

Infrastructural inadequacies and unfulfilled economic promises have created a dangerous income-generation opportunity for unemployed youths who vandalise transformers to provide illegal electricity connections in the slums.

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