Kenyan bishops express concern about increased crime, insecurity

Published: 2005-07-25

NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) -- Noting that almost 100 people -- including an Italian bishop -- have been killed in northern Kenya in July, Kenya's bishops said they are alarmed at the high levels of crime and insecurity in the country. "Insecurity must be halted" in all areas of Kenya "rocked by skirmishes and bloodletting," the bishops said in a July 18 statement. Noting their dismay at the government's handling of crime, the bishops made a "passionate appeal" to President Mwai Kibaki to urge the minister for internal security to install permanent bases across the country "to protect the lives and property of all peace-loving Kenyans." The bishops' statement follows the mid-July murder of 65 people, including four children, in violence sparked by an apparent cattle-rustling raid on a northern Kenyan village.

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