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Is Nairobi's Sodom a doomed place?

The tree that fell on a matatu heading to Nakuru on Wednesday evening, killing five people.  [Photo: Elvis Ogina/Standard]

What is in a name? Many of us would be quick to shrug off the suggestion that the name we give a child or a place could have power to influence their character.

But not for most residents and traders of a small market centre near Kangemi, along the busy Nairobi-Nakuru Highway, a few metres from the site where a five people were killed when a huge tree fell on a matatu and boda boda on Wednesday.

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