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Zero tolerance needed on violent criminals

Another day, another kidnapping, another rape, a ransom demanded and even perhaps, another killing. Welcome to urban Kenya’s latest "emerging crime".

There has been an upsurge in abductions, originally of children from well-to-do families, that has now become some sort of fad.

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