We all have a role in fight against crime

There is a significant appreciation of the challenges our security agencies confront on daily basis in the fight against petty and organised crime. These challenges are both internal in terms of poor equipment and low morale and external in regard to new crime trends which are fluid and difficult to detect let alone defuse.

But Kenyans are increasingly getting frustrated and logistical and grudgingly beginning to accept that our security agencies could have as well lost the war to keep the country safe. This realisation is being reinforced everyday as images of Kenyans fleeing their homes begin to populate newspaper pages and television screens; images of hapless peasants—their entire household items on rickety handcarts— trekking to safety, hopelessness etched on their faces.