A county in Kenya will start vetting house helps and casual labourers in an effort to curb crimes reports Kenya’s Nation
Nyeri county security team said that it will start scrutinizing casual labourers that include farm hands and motorcycle taxi drivers in a plan to end increased crime rates in the area.
“It has come to our attention that most suspects in criminal cases are casual workers who hail from other regions and vanish soon after committing the offences,” said Mr Onesmus Musyoki, Nyeri county commissioner and chairperson of the security team.
The county government will be registering all workers and have asked the public to cooperate and report to the Deputy County Commissioners with all their workers with their official documents.
“We need to identify these people and know their background because some could have been involved in crime elsewhere before fleeing to our county. Some employers do not even know who is working for them, which is very risky,” said the county commissioner
The county has experienced increased break-ins, murder and defilement cases where casual labourers have been held as suspects.
According to Natiopn, a farm hand was arrested earlier this week for allegedly killing a 17 year old student. While, in November 2015, the county’s most wanted criminal killed in a hide out in the Aberdare forest was identified as Samuel Kiboi who has worked in a number of homes in the county as a farm hand
