By Alloys Musyoka
Sports Cabinet secretary Salim Mvurya has lauded police efforts to bring sanity in the Diani tourists town after juvenile gangs for months reigned terror scaring investment.
Mvurya said that the national government fully supports the crackdown exercise being done by the police in Diani as well as arresting of parents alongside their children found committing crime.
He made the remarks at Kwale town when he flagged a consignment of food to Imams across the six sub-counties of Kwale county, ensuring it reaches Muslim faithful ahead of the Eid celebrations.
“I support the security team when they do their best to ensure Kwale is safe like before. You all know during this month we have night prayers that need peace.,” he said.
The CS urged parents to talk to their children in the effort to ensure the county does not lose its economy and suffer the consequence of poverty.
“If we don’t have security we lose our economy and go back to poverty. Let the county security team continue, you have all the support that you need from the national government,” he said.
Mvurya said that there is no Kwale politician or leader who will stop police from arresting and charging those destabilizing the county security sounding warning to all parents.
He said that the food will be distributed to Muslim faithful’s in Matuga, Kinango,Samburu,Msambweni and Shimba Hills.
Kwale county commissioner Stephen Orinde said that already police in the area have arrested 120 suspects of the panga boy’s criminal gangs that have been terrorizing residents in Diani in a week long operation.
63 of the suspects have been taken to court as police asked for 14 days to hold 33 of them under miscellaneous application to conduct more investigation.
He said that the operation will continue to weed out the gang members with more parents arrested and juvenile gangs expected to be taken to court on Tuesday next week.
Matuga MP Kassim Tandaza supported the idea of arresting suspected juvenile gang’s members with their parents saying it will help in people taking responsibility for their families.
