Nakuru County: How crime can be controlled in the county    

Nakuru County being a metropolitan county faces many different types of crimes from crimes against persons to victimless crimes and violent crimes to white collar crimes. Crimes against persons which include murder, aggravated assault, rape and robbery are brought before Nakuru court each day.

White collar crimes are committed by people of high social status who commit their crimes in the context of their occupation. The Nakuru county government should put a strategy to incubate these and other forms of crimes from occurring. There is a need to enact and adopt some criteria that might scoop away crimes occurrence and if exist there is a need to have a proper channel to control them.

The county government should distribute resources equally. Everyone in the society has the equal opportunities to use the resources allocated which include land, water, minerals, fuel and wealth. The CDF should be distributed equally to every constituency. The resource needed in Nakuru town for instance is also needed in remote areas like Solai, Bonita, Marram and Kuresoi.

The key leaders in the government should note that the same roads used by the governor along M. Umoni estate in Nakuru is the same road required by the farmers to transport their produce from Ndundori to the market.

Due to poor equal distribution of resources, people have moved from remote areas and squize in urban in order to get job or randalize resources so as to acquire some wealth. When the county government distribute resources equally up to remote parts of Nakuru County, the level of crimes in urban will reduce. People will get job opportunities and also get intouch with income generating activities e.g. when provided with good infrastructure roads and water, then they will tend to adopt farming and thus will be self-employed.

This equal distribution of resources will not only help in reducing crimes but also will help in deolalization of industries.
Nakuru County consists of youths who are unemployed. The county government should help curb this by providing this young government with initiative like fish pond, fish rearing and chick hatchery among other strategies. The problem with on leader is they only lay down foundation but does not implement or enact. If youths employment can be advocated, their crimes such as illicit brewing, drug trafficking, gambling and any anti-social behavior can be deterred.

An idle mind is the devil’s workshop. I see a situation where youths forms a group and seeks Uwezo funds. Yes, that’s alright, where will they take the money? If the government won’t monitor where and how the funds will be used, then Nakuru county will experience the next attacks. Some may go and buy crucial weapons and chemicals by forming a militia group because they have been given the funds without being monitored.

The Nakuru County government should bear in mind that those involved in violent crimes is by involving them in income generating activities.
Hypothetically we cannot eradicate crime tomorrow simply by sliding all of its criminal statutes because it would probably cause the behavior to increase since it could be no longer punished the gap between the poor and the rich is another cause that leads to devil crimes.

Another implication is that some societies found in remote areas are by definition “crime tree”. This small neither foraging society found in remote areas because the members of these societies neither read nor write. They have no formalized criminal statute.

MP Launches counselling initiative for illicit brewers in Nakuru

Police from Bahati police station have been blamed by Bahati member of parliament Onesmus Kimani Ngunjiri.
Ngunjiri is blaming the law enforcers for over-reacting and lack of use of counseling skills and psychological knowledge when dealing with illicit brewers.

Njunguri who spoke over the weekend at Menengai hill secondary school in Kirima, noted that the police in Bahati do not give counseling to those who are caught up in brewing but instead they take bribe and the vicious circle of poverty continues.

“I want to put the police on notice and encourage them to give counseling to illicit brewers and drinkers so as to change their lives”. Said Njunguri.

He was addressing a group of 30 people from the area who were changaa brewers and drinkers but after counseling was done to them they abandoned the chang’aa activity.

Monicah Nyambura, a mother of 7 who brew chang’aa to the residents got counseling from Ngunjiri and helped the members to become law abiding citizens.

“We are happy for the Kimani Ngunjiri counseling initiative which helped me leave the chang’aa business now I am a farmer and y children are in school despite the odd days when I could not educate my children”, says Monicah.

Monicah has benefited from the counseling and it is this that has made her 24 year old son get into the university after getting an A plain in KCSE last year.
The abandoned drinkers engage in a merry-go-around chama which gives members Kshs.4,000 every month.

Kimani thanked the group and promised to help them so that they can be good examples from Bahati constituency and Nakuru county at large.

The group which operates 3 incubators, has got milk goats and arc in the process of purchasing a land. Kimani gave the group 6 milk goats, added them incubator and urged them to seek Uwezo funds.