State agency: Country suffocating under yoke of criminal gangs

Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Forensic Crime scene Investigations officers at Kamitha Amboseli in Kawangware where Amos Kiprono Langat was shot dead. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Criminals gangs have infiltrated the country's security sector, greatly compromising efforts to fight crime a government-sanctioned study reveals.

More worrying, there are more than 300 such gangs in the eleven counties sampled. The gangs are linked to serious crimes like murder, contract killing, kidnaping, human trafficking, rape, defilement, extortion and robbery, among others.