It was a horrific weekend for a group of travelers on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway as the bus they were traveling in (belonging to the Coast Bus company) was hijacked by armed gangsters at Kibwezi who shot dead the driver, robbed motorists and raped at least five female passengers.
According to witnesses, the gangsters boarded the coast bus at Mlolongo near Nairobi only to raise hell over 200 kilometers away in Kibwezi, which is notorious for highway robberies.
Police records released to the public show that two of the most wanted gangsters operate between Makindu and Kibwezi and it could not be surprising if they were involved in the weekend incident which has raised fresh concerns over the safety of traveling at night by bus to far flung destinations.
Over the years, Kenyans have considered bus travel as the safest mode of moving around besides air travel whose cost is prohibitive and beyond the reach of most Kenyans.
What happened on the expansive highway this last weekend, goes a long way to show what today's violent criminals are capable of. A bus carries at least seventy passengers and among them could be armed policemen in civilian clothes, a fact that the thugs know very well but are willing to take the risk.
And again, even five gangsters armed with guns can be overpowered by seventy people with minimum casualties as long as the assault by the passengers is well coordinated. The thugs also know this but are willing to take the risk for a few thousand shillings and the sickening pleasure they get from raping their victims.
Today's criminals are willing to take life-threatening risks for relatively small 'rewards' not forgetting that violent crime is a capital offence in Kenya punishable by death on conviction. Those who escape apprehension by law enforcers could end up being executed by police or worse still, the wrath of mob justice where members of public beat cornered suspects to death.
Kenyans have refused to face the reality of the crime situation and this is well depicted by the kind of solutions that all and sundry offer which includes increasing the number of heavily armed policemen on the streets to carrying out extra-judicial killings on notoriously known hardcore criminals.
However, the first step in stemming the increasing crime rate is to get teenagers and the youth busy especially those who have dropped out of school and calling on parents to closely monitor and care for their kids not to mention stressing on moral values and probity.
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Monday, March 05, 2007
Violence Mars Vijana Tugutuke Function In Garissa: Are The Old Men Feeling The Heat?
The unthinkable happened. What could otherwise have been an entertaining youth function organized by the 'Vijana Tugutuke' group on sensitizing the youth on the importance of voting, turned into a violent confrontation as a mob emerged from nowhere and began throwing missiles at those in attendance.
Garissa, a dessert town in north eastern province of Kenya where nothing happens was turned into a battle field to the chagrin of leading local musicians, Nameless and Nonini who were at hand to entertain the crowd but instead found themselves dashing for cover as missiles flew.
The electoral commission of Kenya said they only managed to register 125 new voters as a result of the fracas with fingers being pointed at older politicians who do not want the youth to aspire for parliamentary seats in the forthcoming general elections.
Vijana Tugutuke is a lobby group comprising of youths who are advocating for their peers to get voting cards and ensure they participate in the forthcoming elections by voting for young leaders so that they can take control of their destiny.
The group has made enormous strides in their advocacy by inviting popular local musicians and comedians to perform at their functions hence attracting big crowds of the youth to the detriment of the old politicians.
This could be the reason why an old, tired and paranoid politician from Garissa could have hired a group of youths to disrupt the function so as to ensure the young guys don’t register as voters and vote him out in the December general elections.
An official of the lobby group, Ms Koki Muli said they will not be deterred by what happened over the weekend and vowed to double their efforts to ensure the youth captured a sizeable amount of seats in parliament as they are the majority in Kenya but have previously been easily manipulated by bribes from elderly politicians.
What is evident is that the group will hold a lot of sway in the forthcoming elections as far as who captures the parliamentary seats irrespective of party affiliation, as the young voters will be considering age above everything else. It is widely believed that elderly politicians will now get a proper run for their money this time round.
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Garissa, a dessert town in north eastern province of Kenya where nothing happens was turned into a battle field to the chagrin of leading local musicians, Nameless and Nonini who were at hand to entertain the crowd but instead found themselves dashing for cover as missiles flew.
The electoral commission of Kenya said they only managed to register 125 new voters as a result of the fracas with fingers being pointed at older politicians who do not want the youth to aspire for parliamentary seats in the forthcoming general elections.
Vijana Tugutuke is a lobby group comprising of youths who are advocating for their peers to get voting cards and ensure they participate in the forthcoming elections by voting for young leaders so that they can take control of their destiny.
The group has made enormous strides in their advocacy by inviting popular local musicians and comedians to perform at their functions hence attracting big crowds of the youth to the detriment of the old politicians.
This could be the reason why an old, tired and paranoid politician from Garissa could have hired a group of youths to disrupt the function so as to ensure the young guys don’t register as voters and vote him out in the December general elections.
An official of the lobby group, Ms Koki Muli said they will not be deterred by what happened over the weekend and vowed to double their efforts to ensure the youth captured a sizeable amount of seats in parliament as they are the majority in Kenya but have previously been easily manipulated by bribes from elderly politicians.
What is evident is that the group will hold a lot of sway in the forthcoming elections as far as who captures the parliamentary seats irrespective of party affiliation, as the young voters will be considering age above everything else. It is widely believed that elderly politicians will now get a proper run for their money this time round.
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