War on drugs, alcoholism goes a notch higher in central Kenya as county forms multi-agency team to combat bootleg booze
The administrator observed that drug and alcohol abuse continues to erode the economic welfare of many families, draining household incomes and fuelling crime, school dropouts and domestic conflicts.
Kenya’s police chief pledges to crack down on organised criminal gangs in run up 2027 elections
Statistics presented at the session showed fatalities from road accidents had risen from 4,479 in 2024 to 4,682 in 2025. In the first two weeks of December alone, 28 people lost their lives in accidents across the country. Kenya loses at least 4,000 people annually to road accidents.
State promises to root out cattle rustling in Lake Victoria Basin counties as ethnic tensions rise
The principal secretary said the government was holding elaborate consultations with local leaders and security agencies to dismantle emerging criminal gangs and restore security in the affected areas.
Gangs and mafia-style crime: How political class raised spectre of violence in Kenya ahead of the 2027 General Election
Behind these politically sponsored attacks looms the shadow of 2007/8 post-election violence, when 1,330 people were killed and more than 600,000 displaced in just a month as gangs and ethnic militias unleashed terror across the country.
