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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Omollo on August 19, 2016, 12:13:47 AM
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The photo below is not of Luo Kibera. It is of Kikuyu Nyeri.
Nyeri is the county from where Mwai Kibaki came from. It is the county that has produced a large number of billionaires who love to scorn Raila calling him "The Lord of Poverty". The suggestion being Raila not only causes poverty but presides over poverty and the poor in an Poor People Empire headquartered in what another Nyeri braggart - Kaguthi called Luo Nyanza.
Well it now looks like Raila's empire has expanded to Nyeri. See for yourself below. When I published photos of the poverty I had seen in Central at RCB it was deleted within seconds by a moderator. This however is from the Tribal Rag run by Kiboro.
Note that it is NOT one slum:
(http://www.nation.co.ke/image/view/-/3349732/highRes/1413073/-/maxw/600/-/34loi3z/-/slumpx.jpg)
Slums in Nyeri have turned into hideouts for some of the country’s most wanted criminals, police have revealed.
Witemere, Kiawara, Ngangarithi, Kangemi and Majengo slums have been classified as some of the favourite areas for armed criminals, most of them on police watch lists for criminal activities in parts of Nairobi and the central region.
A number of estates around Nyeri town, including Kamakwa and Skuta, have also been pointed out as hideouts for the criminals.
According to police sources, armed criminals operating in Nairobi and Kiambu counties usually escape to parts of Nyeri when police tighten the noose on armed criminals in the areas.
A source, who spoke to the Nation.co.ke on condition of anonymity, said that most of them are natives of Nyeri and were inducted into crime by local gangs.
“Most of the profiled criminals come from Nyeri. They operate in Nairobi and when they realize they are about to be caught or when police operations are heightened, they run to these slums to lie low,” said the source, who sought anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to the media.
Poor accessibility and the slum life give the criminals an advantage over detectives and time to escape when police close in on them.
The divisional commanding officer in charge of Nyeri Central, Masai Makau, told the Nation that the criminals have recruited lookouts and devised modes of communication that they use to alert them of the presence of police officers in the area.
They are said to hire even street children to act as spies on police activities or the presence of unfamiliar faces.
“They are very fast in communicating and whenever an unfamiliar face is spotted they will vanish. They have lookouts everywhere,” said Mr Makau.
So good are the lookouts that they are able to spot even plain-clothes detectives, a tactic police say criminals have acquired by identifying slum dwellers.
“They know the people they live around so any unfamiliar face automatically raises a red flag,” said the area OCPD.
On four separate occasions last month, three of the most wanted gun-wielding criminals managed to escape the grasp of police in operations organised by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations.
On each occasion, they escaped through the slums, where they know police will not engage them in a gunfight.
“Police officers cannot continue firing live bullets in a densely habited area because innocent people could get injured in the shootout. The criminals know this and they try to use it to their advantage,” said Mr Makau in a previous interview with the Nation.
The many slums around Nyeri town, according to police, hinder police in their efforts to apprehend the suspects.
“There are so many scattered slums in Nyeri [and this] makes policing quite challenging because community policing in those areas is rather inactive,” Mr Makau said.
Police have warned that the criminals are heavily armed and dangerous but maintained that efforts to apprehend them are under way.
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I thought poverty is only restricted to Nyanza :D :D :D
Kiawara slums in Nyeri
(http://www.nation.co.ke/image/view/-/3349732/highRes/1413073/-/maxw/600/-/34loi3z/-/slumpx.jpg)
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poverty is as Kenyan as richness is to todays Kenya politicians. Look at those so called infrastructure!!!
SHOCKING???
No, Go Kericho its the same, Mandera, Kibera, Kisii, etc...
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First of all the above picture isn't of kiawara but majengo. Kiawara isn't a slum like majengo its a place where plots are going for 1m to 3m . Every town has a slum because the counties or the state hasn't issued title deeds to owners to put up proper structures. Ngangarithi the other place mentioned as slum is a peri urban place where landowners are uprooting coffee to put up buildings as nyeri expands. What's important is the companies (factories) being put up or expanding in nyeri. If only Nyeri had a half a competent governor it could be truly be one of the richest counties without the huge income disparities in kiambu or nakuru.
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But it's not shocking unless one thinks Nyeri is, er, a developed county.
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Jubilee and Kikuyu Supremacists sell the image of Central as full of prosperity and affluence and cite Kibera and Luos as the contrast. Ngunyi and Kuria have been leading the tribal supremacy charge.
Does it matter what is behind a slum?
Kibera is surrounded by some of the poshest estates in Kenya; Lavington has Kawangware behind it. etc. We know and I have said it before: The Poorest Man in any country is found living a stone throw away from where the Richest man is found. Test it any day