Lately, criminal gangs have been on the upsurge, especially in the low-cost residential areas of Nairobi and in informal settlements within the city. It is not hard to establish the reason for this, coming, as it does, in an election year. The National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) warns that these gangs are indeed being financed by lacklustre politicians with nothing to offer Kenyans save for their greed for power. Most of them in actual sense are self-absorbed tribal chiefs using tribes as a means to an end.