A UK TV report exposed the lucrative scam involving fake gunmen, which hastaken in Time magazine and Danish broadcaster DR among others.
One actor in Nairobi said: “We pretendbecause we have the talent.”
These black-market buccaneers can earn a dailyfee of $200 by pretending to be ruthless kidnappers.
One man interviewed by Time and DR said hewas called gang boss Bashir, but this is not his real name and he admits he’s never evenbeen to Somalia.
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