Snatching of mobile phones and handbags has become the order
of the day at the Railways roundabout. Criminals take advantage of traffic to
snatch items from passengers.
Most of the affected passengers are those seated near the
windows. The criminals, most of them street boys, while away time at the
roundabout then emerge when there is traffic.
A Riara University student was recently left in tears after
her handbag was snatched through the window of a matatu she was travelling in.
Matatu crews are now regularly warning their passengers not
to use their mobile phones at the roundabout and to always close windows.
Pedestrians have also been violently robbed in broad daylight along Haile
Selassie Avenue. May be the Government should deploy police officers at the
roundabout to end this madness.