Miraj: political handouts are fuelling insecurity in Likoni
Nominated Senator Miraj Abdillahi says politicians who pay youth for "dirty jobs" are pushing some into crime in Mombasa. She also blamed missing street lights for a recent cess point attack that killed a county officer.
Nominated Senator Miraj Abdillahi has said political handouts to young people are helping drive insecurity in Mombasa, The Star reported. She said politicians who pay youth to do "dirty jobs" cannot keep paying them. Some of these young people then turn to crime to keep the cash coming, she said. She spoke at Approved Ground in Likoni during a graduation ceremony for ECDE and primary school pupils. Miraj called for real empowerment projects that let young people feed their families. "Once you give them handouts, they will be dependent on you. I know that is what politicians want. But you cannot sustain that. You are turning these young people into monsters," she said. She said some politicians were fuelling insecurity in Likoni and other parts of Mombasa, knowingly or unknowingly. She linked the handouts and a lack of street lighting to a recent attack on a cess point in Likoni. A county enforcement officer was killed and an Administration Police officer was seriously injured. The attackers took an AK47 rifle, which has not been recovered. Miraj said the killers would already have been arrested if street lighting had allowed private CCTV cameras to capture them. The attack prompted security operations in Likoni. Some residents speculated that a curfew had been imposed. On October 30, Coast Regional Police Commander Ali Nuno denied this. He called the attack an isolated case that did not reflect the general security…
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