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By Joseph Karimi
Kenya: Armed robberies had become daily occurrences in Nairobi in the 1970s. Robbers had taken centre stage and turned Nairobi into a gangland city. Through the 1970s, cases of armed robberies had increased necessitating President Kenyatta’s government to pass a law that prescribed the death sentence for robbery with violence. It required robbers who used violence and caused injury to their victims to be hanged. It was the only way to curb the robberies.
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