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Kisumu residents ask Matiang'i to intervene as criminal gangs re-emerge

Security chiefs CS Fred Matiang’i (right) and IG Joseph Boinnet (left) during the Police Conference at the Kenya School of Government, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Police in Kisumu say they have scaled down the war against a resurging crime wave down to two ‘small’ criminal gangs, one of which is led by a former convict.

Security bosses on Thursday said a dragnet was being laid by team of crime investigators to net members of the gang said to be operating on motorcycles in executing violent robberies.

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