“Recent occurrences in our fight against criminals have revealed a very ugly and ferocious face of women gangsters. It appears that for a long time the police failed to factor in the role of women gangsters in the crime index, let alone laying down strategies to tame them. “Women are today active actors in organised crime, in which they are equal partners with male criminals in armed heists and hit jobs, but mostly provide safe havens for wanted male criminals. “Thanks to our sexist mentality, women might be getting away with serious crimes, given that in almost all incidents in which male gangsters are gunned down in the company of women, those women are invariably lucky and get away,” Mr Kiraithe says. In addition, some of the women criminals spy on, and lure, their male colleagues’ targets for elimination.

Source: Daily Nation June 11, 2017 16:52 UTC