Crime risk as message app used by chiefs is shut down

Lanet Umoja Chief Francis Kariuki during an interview at Standard Group office in Nakuru yesterday. [ Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

In 2013, the chief of Nakuru's Lanet Umoja was invited to Silicon Valley in San Francisco to give a talk on his transformative way of using Twitter as a crime-fighting tool.

Chief Francis Kariuki was lauded both locally and abroad for the way he took advantage of a service provided by social media to share tweets to hundreds of people via text message.