Walking at a fast pace, Yakobo moves with a couple of papers in his left hand and visits households, mainly in areas of Tanga city-near commercial banks, hotels and pharmacies.
He asks some of the people he comes across to sign their names on a piece of paper and continues with his errands the scotching sun notwithstanding. But more specifically, he aims his mission on water metres where he kneels and carefully records the gadgets' readings. Yakobo's papers are full of scribbling, so much that it is not easy to make out what is written therein.
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