Current Crime Wave Must Be Linked To The Forthcoming General Elections

Regular readers of this blog will be well aware of the fact that I have covered this subject in great detail before. They will also remember that I predicted that the rate of crime will shoot up dramatically as we approach the general elections. That prediction has now come to pass.

The rate at which Kenyans get carjacked and murdered is alarming (in the most recent case a Kikuyu, Kiambu District, an electrician was carjacked at the gate to his house, murdered and his body dumped at a nearby river where it was found several days later). But that is not all. We are also seeing robberies that are targeting some colossal amounts of cash. Kshs 35 million vanished from Habib Bank in Mombasa last week and so far the police have few clues. Then there was a robbery at Barclays Bank, Lavington last Saturday that broke new ground. The thugs posing as technicians, gained access to the ATM machine and literally emptied the till.

Gaining access to an ATM machine is not easy. The only way the thugs would have done it would have been from inside the bank and with some very expert advice from an ATM expert. There are not that many in the country, but then there is the additional fact that we also have plenty of foreigners in the country, many of them criminal elements who have picked up all sorts of skills that they are too willing to hire out to some thugs to use locally.

All in all the timing of the current heightened level of crime has to be linked to the general elections and some of our more sinister politicians raising funds for their electioneering campaigns.

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