Boda boda rider faces rape charge
Nairobi
By
Franklin Wallah
| Mar 13, 2020
In its 2019 report, The National Crime Research Centre, a State Corporation, says boda boda riders accounted for 52.9 per cent of robbery with violence across the country while 67 per cent out of the overall crimes committed by the the sector, took part in stealing.
The report also says boda boda riders also accounted for 38 per cent of murders . It further says 26.2 per cent of the operators were involved in kidnappings and abductions and 76.7 per cent in stealing.
A number of security officials told the The Standard that many criminals have found a safe haven in the boda boda trade.
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