Waziri Mayai Wa Maradhi
JF-Expert Member
- Jan 28, 2026
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We are told our intelligence is among the best in the region. NIS can track a blogger in 24 hours, DCI can find your location from a WhatsApp status, but for 10 years they cannot find the SOURCE of bullets that bandits use to kill in Baringo, Samburu, Turkana, and West Pokot?
Every month bandits have fresh ammunition. AK-47 rounds are not grown like maize. They are manufactured, transported, stored and sold. Someone is supplying them.
So we have to ask the uncomfortable question:
Is it that the government CANNOT find the source, or is it that the source IS the system and it's too lucrative to stop?
Because how does a herder in the valley afford 500 rounds at Ksh 300 per bullet, every week, unless someone powerful is funding and arming them?
You cannot fight banditry by collecting 2 guns in a village while leaving the factory that supplies 2,000 guns untouched.
If we are serious, we start with the bullet trail. Who imports it? Who signs for it? Who loses it from the armoury? Follow the bullet, you will find the bandit master.
Until then, this operation is just theatre.
Every month bandits have fresh ammunition. AK-47 rounds are not grown like maize. They are manufactured, transported, stored and sold. Someone is supplying them.
So we have to ask the uncomfortable question:
Is it that the government CANNOT find the source, or is it that the source IS the system and it's too lucrative to stop?
Because how does a herder in the valley afford 500 rounds at Ksh 300 per bullet, every week, unless someone powerful is funding and arming them?
You cannot fight banditry by collecting 2 guns in a village while leaving the factory that supplies 2,000 guns untouched.
If we are serious, we start with the bullet trail. Who imports it? Who signs for it? Who loses it from the armoury? Follow the bullet, you will find the bandit master.
Until then, this operation is just theatre.