Social media-savvy chief earns degree in counselling

Lanet Umoja Location Chief Francis Kariuki speaking to the press after his graduation with a Degree in Counseling Psychology at the Mount Kenya University main Campus in Thika on Friday.The chief uses twitter to fight crime and other social ill in his location.PHOTO BY KAMAU MAICHUHIE.

He came into the limelight a few years ago as the provincial administrator who had embraced the social media to fight crime, which  had reached alarming levels in his location.

Lanet Umoja location Chief Francis Kariuki (pictured) resorted to Twitter to track missing sheep, stop home invasions by thugs, trace stolen goods and missing people, among others.