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My friendship with top cop led to his sacking, John Kiriamiti reveals

Former bank robber turned writer John Kiriamiti has recounted how his friendship with the then Commissioner of Police Ben Njinu led to his sacking in the 1980s.

His acts of robbery with violence are well expounded in his My life in crime  and other novels. But he rarely shares how he made the commissioner of police lose his job, something that pains him.

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