When Kenyan youths (Gen Zs) organized nationwide peaceful protests to exercise their democratic right to reject the proposed 2024/2025 Finance Bill, it was all in order.
However, amidst the protests, other groups with criminal minds took advantage of the situation and devised schemes to cause harm and economically frustrate fellow Kenyans.
Posing as demonstrators, the bad elements who were also well-organized earmarked several business premises including boutiques, electronic shops and supermarkets, breaking in and massively looting to the detriment of innocent business owners.
As a criminal investigative agency, it squarely falls within the mandate of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) to investigate and bring to book any persons involved in such outright criminality, which not only robbed numerous Kenyans their means of livelihood, but also worked towards compromising on otherwise crucial constitutional rights.
In that regard, the DCI’s Imaging and Acoustic Unit, which is located at the National Forensic Laboratory, has since retrieved numerous CCTV footages that captured identifiable persons whose felonious acts isolates them from the hundreds of thousands that stuck to their course.
Whereas some have already been arrested and arraigned in today, more are still out there on the loose, waiting for other opportune times to strike again, causing more damage and risking the lives of innocent citizens caught up in the course of quelling the crimes.
We can flush them from amongst our numbers because they do not share the principles that define what we stand for, and more so for the sake of those who did not deserve to lose their only means of livelihood in this manner.
