Why has the state failed to act decisively to stem spiraling crime?

By Anyang' Nyong'o

When I was a child I feared death like hell. I still fear death but I have come to confront and live with it more often, hence my level of fear has gone down by some recognisable percentage. When I was a child I understood that people died from natural causes. But my parents tried as much as possible to shield us away from funerals. While at St. Paul’s Theological College around 1949 I remember vaguely the death of a young pastor whose body was carried into his house on a stretcher. He was a good friend of my father but we would not be allowed to go to that house that day.