Lyrical gangsters daring bank heist

Onlookers mill around a crime scene where bank robbers had stolen money from Kenya Commercial Bank in Nairobi’s  Eastleigh branch and shot dead a policeman in 1998.

By Beatrice Wamuyu

They don’t make them like they used to any more. In the 1990s, some of Kenya’s most notorious gangsters rampaged through the streets of Nairobi and turned it into a sort of wild, wild West.