Nairobi drug dealers employ street kids to sell guns, heroin

The young children are also vulnerable to paedophiles.

Some of the innocent children roaming Nairobi streets ‘hawking sweets’ are part of a drug cartel in the city, City Hall has revealed.

Nairobi Security Compliance Chief Officer Tito Kilonzi and his Education and Social Services Chief Officer Eva Wairiuko, told the Nairobi City County Assembly committees that some criminal gangs have been using these children, some still in school, to peddle drugs and weapons.