Recent days have seen the rising of an unprecedented wave of crime in Kenya. This has caused foreign nationals to be put on high alert by their respective countries when visiting Kenya.
These gun-toting criminals have been harassing (and often killing!) Kenyans and foreigners alike. God knows what these goings-on have dealt on the country's economy (tourism and the like) and image.
This state of affairs has come up at a time that the country has some serious political and socio-economic decisions to make. In addition, this being an election year, things will not go down so well for some individuals in the present government come election time. The electorate wants answers and solutions to their problems, including solutions to the rising crime rate in the country.
With the East Africa Federation becoming a reality by the day, the other East African countries are jittery about having such a closer union with Kenya given its present lack of security.
Tanzania, for one, is worst hit. There has been an influx of criminals from Kenya into this proverbial peaceful country of Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere. Arusha and Moshi, towns in northern Tanzania, are known to harbour criminals of Kenyan descent, according to police sources. These hard core criminals have taken part in a number of bank heists, robberies and violence.
A number of people I have talked to tend to believe that some of these perpetrators of crime are ex-service men. This opinion has been occasioned by the view that most of these violent criminals are very good at handling guns of high calibre. They are also in possession of weapons that are found nowhere else but the army and police force arsenals. Whether these criminals work in tandem with some unscrupulous force men is still to be brought out in black and white.
