Samidoh goes from keeping exes coming back for more to serenading bandits

Mugithi music artist Samidoh performing at Mugithi Night live at Royal Bentely Lounge, Muchai Drive, Nairobi on 16th July 2022. [File, Standard]

He has a voice that can lure nyoka out of pangoni. But his voice is, perhaps, not what his bosses had in mind when they moved Samuel Muchoki, alias Samidoh, to the Anti-Stock Theft Unit.

Samidoh, a police officer who prefers the guitar to the gun, will be serenading bandits in the troubled North Rift for the foreseeable future. If you bought advance tickets to his Mugiithi shows, count your money as a donation to Bwana Maji Marefu and his troop of waganga.

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