Two bodaboda operators have this morning been charged with gang rape and robbery with violence at the Milimani Law Courts.
The duo, Gideon Mwangi and Sunny Mugendi are also facing four other criminal counts involving two victims amid soaring wave of crime in the city.
They are accused of gang raping a female passenger on 17th August this year at Githurai 45 area of Kasarani in Nairobi.
They were given a bond on Sh2million each with a surety of the same amount.
Armed gangs have infiltrated boda boda sector posing serious security threat.
Notorious gangs have formed organized criminal outfits involved in killing, maiming, kidnapping, raping and robbing innocent people, a new
A recent survey by the National Crime Research Centre, a State agency under Interior Ministry, the report tabled in the National Assembly, cautions the situation could soon explode out of control if regulations are not put in place to weed out criminals hiding in the business.
The report, arising from a survey conducted in at least 24 counties, warns that the transport sub-sector poses a major threat to the national security noting that armed robberies at Mpesa shops, shopping malls and in the estates are now carried out by gangs on motorbikes.
