Treat cattle theft upcountry, urban thuggery as criminal acts

When it turned out that world powers China and United States of America were not at war and neither had they funded a proxy battle in Kisumu, but a vicious turf battle by well-known bands of extortionists called China and America, respectively, there was a collective sigh of relief.

Then last week, it also turned out that the vicious bloodletting in Kisauni, Mombasa, had nothing to do with an emboldened Mombasa Republican Council or a resurrected Al Shabaab, but a Kisumu-style gang terror.