High alert in Kisumu as adult street boys attack, rob, and rape residents

Joseph Okello was only seven years old when he fled their home in Gem, Siaya County to become a street boy in Kisumu in 2003. Hardened by the tough living conditions he claims he was subjected to at home by his uncle after the death of his parents, he claims, he was ready to risk everything for a life in the streets.

His dream was to find a way to survive and probably get a foster family or a well-wisher to take care of him and take him back to school. This dream, however, crumbled under the weight of drugs, crime, and a series of bad luck including arrests by police officers that the young Okello encountered.