Nairobi — Eastleigh estate, which once was a well- regarded middle income civil servants estate but changed its face after the influx of Somali refugees in the early 1990s following the outbreak of war and chaos in Somalia, is today recognised as Nairobi's firearms supermarket.
Former soldiers of the fallen Siad Barre regime of Somalia made a living by selling guns to gangsters, creating a lucrative illegal business which, by the end of the 1990s, attracted hordes of thugs.
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