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Japhet Koome: Lived by bluffs and bullets, felled by volley of hashtags

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Former Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome. [File, Standard]

In the end, it was not the stones he spent a lifetime learning how to duck and allegedly pelt, skills he would later teach at Kiganjo Mixed, that got him out of office.

It was the things that Japhet Nchebere Koome - the former Inspector General of Police - never came across in the Kiganjo curriculum, as a student and later teacher. Hashtags.

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