Day President Kenyatta sought death sentence for violent robbers

Nairobi OCPD JM Oswald (left) with other police officers examine recovered cash.

By Joseph Karimi          

In the early 1970s, gangsters ran amok in Nairobi. There were so many robberies in the city that everyone was concerned. Bank heists became so common that the police force, which had only recently been Africanised, was brought into disrepute.