That is really grim.
Yeah sounds like a different peri-urban experience - that Kiambu is dealing with it - in the middle of urbanizing.
For me the solution has to start with putting Kiambu village people in the charge of their village security.
Your DCI in Nairobi is most useful in Kiambu - not Nairobi.
Kiambu villages know the thugs and likely to be thugs - they even know those with thieving genes
And if police/chiefs/ass chiefs are locals - they can weed out thugs easily.
But now my cousin has been in Tigoni police station - all he does is collect bribe.
My uncle was dcio in Kiambu - everytime we met he was with some land brokers.
For him being in kiambu was just lucrative business to make money - from land brokers - homicide was not a priority.
Heck in fact he once told me some thugs come and bribe cid before they commit crimes.
There are brokers who connect the foreign police with local thugs.
The police dont care - they are in a station for few months - they get transferred.
All they care about is making money.
The solution is to have Kiambu villagers - be policed by fellow Kiambu villagers.
I doubt somoene who'd take bribes to have their nephews killed.
If need be the local police - would easily get village vigilantes to deal with slums.
In my place - I have had a relative family - forced to sell land and move when their kids were found stealing.
The villages can even ex-communicate thugs or flatten slums.
EJK will never solve anything...as new thugs are born.
What will solve crimes is entire community combating crime with help of uncompromising police and community trusting the police - zero tolerance to thugs.But now our broken police work with thugs or at best dont care - or ejk those that stop paying or overdo their stealing. It cannot work.
the villages are crowded. every kiambu village has a group of people that live in government provided plots. these people survive on casual worm. with the drought this casual work has dried up and in towns near these villages the economic activities have slowed down. the thieves are usually brought in by village thugs from outside. the thugs in the village spy for them. then there are those thugs that are bold enough to steal in the same village they live in. Ejk is a deterrent not a solution. after my dad's cousin who headed dcio in nairobi rounded up and eliminated the gang leaders crime in my village died and is only now reappearing
the trick he used was to put so much pressure on cops that they had to go hard on the criminals. my neighbor who was the gang leader ended up dying after being detained in a cell that had tb prisoners with drug resistant tb. I think he had aids too so tb just finished him off. after a year they dumped him at his home and he died a few months later
before that tigoni and limuru residents had flushed all the thugs in that area and even demolished a slum huko. 3 guys from my village were killed in that tigoni operation. two were twin brothers their bodies were dumped in a thicket by their gang and dogs ate their bodies. their uncle who was a dub chief is the one that realized that dogs were feeding on something in the thicket and after investigating he saw it was two human bodies that turned out to be his nephews. his brother was gunned in kimende and cops demanded the family pay before they could release the bodd. the sub chief dad refused to have his son body to be claimed and so he was buried in a mass grace by the county
ejk must be part of the tool. our justice system doesn't have the resources to deal with all these thugs
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