A study by the National Crime Research Centre (NCRC) titled-Managing the Dangerous Drift in Livestock Rustling and Banditry in Kenya has revealed factors that inspire banditry and rustling.
The report shows that the main drivers of the present-day raids are commercialisation of livestock rustling and banditry and the inability of the government to provide adequate security protection to vulnerable local communities.
Other drivers are proliferation of illegal small arms and light weapons, high levels of ignorance and illiteracy among the youthful population, economic and poverty vulnerability, historical ethnic and inter-community hostility, and competition over scarce natural and economic resources.
