That is the biggest joke i have ever heard in my life. Addis ababa, Gaborone,Daker Senegal are some of the safe cities in Africa. Kampala is even safer than Nairobi.

May be we could start by asking where the rain started beating us from. A society builds institutons and sets standards by which it leaves. If Addis, Kampala or Khrtm are safer, its because the society there chose to, and did not condone bad elements. The problem with our country is pretence/fallacy. The thugs are amidst us, we are proud of thieves because they are our relatives or tribesmen. we celebrate when we bribe our way into employment, or call Ocampo names coz our man has been named. It is the society we've built, lets leave by it.

@Rahatupu, what about Zanzibar? What are their crime stats?
I was there 2 months ago and was amazed that tourists move around deep in those narrow streets freely as late as 9pm!
Methinks there's a strong direct relationship between type of religion in an area and its level of crime...

Used to live in a bungalow. Crooks came in from the 'open' roof. So covered the area with a roof which led to poor movement of air...
Then the bastards cut the grills! I kid you not... They cut 2 bars [while it was raining] then bent them...
So we moved some flats. They followed one of the residents in at night [no lights on our street. Thanks NCC]. They managed to enter one of the blocks & robbed who they could before the alarm was raised...

interesting quotes... very true and factual.. though most of these were independence struggle leaders.. there is a 1 in a million chance that firearms can be 'liberalised' here..

issues of fact being that you can own a firearm in Kenya legally if you want..

first of course you have to be able to afford the gun and also afford the license to hold it..

to be licensed to hold it i am sure there must be some expensive handling lessons involved..

but i do not think it solves the root matter...

the times i mentioned i have been carjacked this year.. the level of tactic displayed by the carjackers puts hollywood actors to shame.. mostly because the security agencies.. trained with taxpayers money are involved..

i recall the second time.. the car blocked me and on the count of 3, all 4 doors of the carjackers car opened and i was staring straight into 2 well aimed pistols.. another 2 armed guys rushed at us starting with the passengers in the rear and moving to the front inspecting us for any arms..

i highly doubt if i had a gun it would have helped me..