Goons: The thin line between youth networks and gangs for hire

PS Raymond Omolo and team appear before Parliament’s Administration and Internal Security Committee. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Interior Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo has built a reputation as a polished civil servant whose empowerment programmes have touched families across the country. Yet he now finds himself at the centre of mounting controversy, with critics alleging that some beneficiaries of those initiatives have morphed into political foot soldiers accused of disrupting rival rallies ahead of next year’s General Election.