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Hair-raising crime fighters

IT’S UNCLEAR at first: are we reading a true-crime novel, or are we on Twitter?

“The 45-year-old dad, a local Jua Kali artisan, had gone to his son’s house to enquire on his habitual absenteeism from school,” the script begins, using a Swahili term for someone who works in the sun.

He barges into his 21-year-old son’s room, “only to find him enjoying a romantic moment with a lady”.

We are, in fact, on Twitter, and this is the account of Kenya’s esteemed Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI). And yet

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