Kenya’s shadow army: How cheap thugs became a political necessity
During anti-government protests last year, AFP saw first-hand how hundreds of goons appeared to work directly alongside police to attack demonstrators, later looting and vandalising businesses in central Nairobi.
A former altar boy, he grew up as one of seven children in Nairobi informal settlements, and his parents scraped together enough to send him to school and university, where he studied criminology.
Raised by a single mother in Korogocho, one of Nairobi’s poorest informal settlements, Marius describes himself as “something like illiterate”, and sees few options in a country where 40% live below the poverty line.
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