HOW KENYA’S TEN HOUSES CONCEPT IS TAMING CRIME AND TERRORISM

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HOW KENYA’S TEN HOUSES CONCEPT IS TAMING CRIME AND TERRORISM
A Kenyan initiative has adapted a model from Tanzania seeking to create a rapport between citizens and law enforcers in fighting insecurity.
Every Wednesday evening Joel Kirui, a banker in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, joins other families in the South C estate, predominantly occupied by the country’s burgeoning middle class, for the weekly meeting. The meetings discuss any security situations over the previous weeks and any suspicious activities any dweller of the estate may have noticed. Comprising of 12 members, this group is one of the over 210,000 cluster groups that currently exist across the country under a new community policing model.
The groups are a product of government initiative dubbed ‘Nyumba Kumi’, Swahili for ten households, which seeks to create a rapport between citizens and law enforcers in fighting insecurity. It is hinged on the premise that citizens know their areas well and are therefore able to spot any suspicious or unusual activities which they then report to the police. Families living in the same area cluster themselves into groups, of usually ten households, with a view to knowing each other better and sharing information among themselves.
 
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