We Are Coming for You, Interior CS Kindiki Warns Nairobi Muggers

The government has deployed a new police team to deal with muggings and other violent crimes in Nairobi following a public outcry.

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki said on Monday that the new command structure is under firm instructions to swiftly put an end to robbery and other violent crimes in the city and other urban areas.

“We have witnessed increasing criminal activities within the city of Nairobi. Small groups of criminals armed with knives and other weapons are terrorizing the citizens of this city as well as a few other urban centres,” Kindiki said at a media briefing.

“Those boys who have dared the government and want to tell us that they can take over the city and make it a city of crime, we have heard you and therefore we are coming for you.”

Kindiki said the National Police Service has also put in place a multi-agency, multi-disciplined response to this problem and “to get these errant sons – and maybe a few daughters to get out of the streets and put them where criminals belong.”

“We have taken measures to deal with the emerging crime trend in Nairobi. The police command in Nairobi has changed effective immediately,” Kindiki said.

He similarly sent a stern warning to cattle rustlers and bandits in the Rift Valley and Northern Kenya regions, saying the government will also pursue financiers and beneficiaries.

“Banditry has assumed not just an economic dimension but it continues to take new dimensions and increasingly it is appearing that what is happening in the Northern part of this country would very easily constitute crimes against humanity,” he said. “We are coming to dismantle not only the criminals themselves but also to bring down the entire chain that has been the cattle and livestock rustling industry.”

“We are rolling out an unprecedented response against criminals and we are going to go to their hideouts, we will look for the criminals and do to them what the law says we do to criminals in accordance with the law of our country and all other applicable international laws,” he added.