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Yes, it’s this easy to buy a firearm in Nairobi slums

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                                             Buying  firearms has become very easy  in Kenya               PHOTO: COURTESY

By JECKONIA OTIENO

The increasing rate of crime in the country has been blamed on the high number of unlicenced guns held by civilians.

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