A reformed prisoner reveals how a deadly criminal gang in Kayole operates without police interferance

One of the prisoners whose name is withheld for her security purposes has hinted on how a deadly criminal gang in Kayole by the name Gaza operates. Through John’s ( not his real name) revelation this is a representative of how most dangerous gangs in major cities in Kenya operate in the presence of police officers.

According to John, this is a very organised criminal group that comprises of youth between the age of 13- 40 years. The gang has a leader who is always not referred to by his name instead he is just called chairman.

John also revealed that Gaza has a gang of 60 strong sub-groups who do various crime for them and they pay them on commission. The reformed gangster says that the group doesn’t prefer shading innocent blood as long as their victim doesn’t resist. Failure to cooperate provokes the gang to shoot and kill you and get what they want from you.

The gang divided into five groups with each group having four people. Each group has fully loaded firearms which are always carried when going for a deal. The lady gangs are the ones entitled to carry the firearms and not men because ladies are least suspected making them evade arrest by police or suspicion from the public.

“You know us, girls, we are not searched easily when we go to different places, so we are given pistols, pangas and all those tools of trade to carry.We can wrap a pistol together with a child and nobody will realize it,” said one of the Gaza girl.

 In addition, John said that the gang fundings comes from politicians and business people. Some of the leaders named when they were asked they denied the claims saying that they are not involved in any way.

John allegedly said that they get firearms from the police officers at an agreed fee whereby they return them after using them.

“Police also find us and give us bullets at an agreed cost, they also rent us guns at also an agreed fee per deal. Sometimes they turn against the gang if they fail to pay them their money or if they suspect that the information is leaked and they don’t want to be implicated,” John added.

 They also said that they give the police a fee of a hundred thousand per month so that the police allow them to operate freely without their interference.

He further said that they have a lot of cars which by day work as taxes and by night they are used during their robbery missions. He said that when they steal cars they take them to Tushauriane garage where they are disassembled and sold as spare parts.