Calls for the immediate disbandment of the Witemere and Majengo slums' community policing, popularly known as Nyumba Kumi, dominated the funeral service of seven-year-old Tamara Blessing Kabura who was defiled and murdered in Nyeri County last week.
Traders from the Nyeri open-air market, as well as mourners, who paid tribute to the Grade One pupil, accused the Nyumba Kumi elders in the informal settlement area of abetting crime and blocking the National Government Administrative Officers from performing their duties.
They are now calling on authorities to investigate elders and community leaders over what they termed as massive corruption, which they said has led to the deterioration of security in the slum area.
They also want a thorough excavation and search conducted in the slums, where Tamara's body was discovered, to establish whether more victims of paedophilia could be buried underneath the houses. "We want the police and the national government to launch an immediate investigation of the so-called community elders of Majengo and Witemere slums.
