Deal with muggers, boda boda to halt city's descent into chaos

Earlier in the year, this column wrote on Italy's scippatori, motorcycle thieves renowned for their ability to snatch purses and jewellery on the run. It warned that if no resolute action was taken against Nairobi's boda boda menace, the Kenyan version of scippatori would be coming to a street near you. It seems the warning was ominously prescient and now hue and cry has arisen after a spate of thefts and muggings attributed to motorcycle gangs.