New technology can help us to wipe out bandits

An armoured personnel carrier patrols Kasiela, Baringo South, on December 28, 2022. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

The bandits who ride roughshod over large swathes of some parts of this country are convinced that they are invisible. And it is hard to doubt them going by the kind of havoc they have wreaked for decades and the apparent inability of the police to rein them in.

It is clear they do not respect or even fear the government and they seem to believe that they have got the upper hand. Some people are now convinced that their acts are meant to mock the government; to prove that they call the shots.