Know about Sungusungu ;one of the three criminal gangs at Kisii in yester years.

Sungu Sungu
In its truest sense, ‘ sungusungu’ is a term rather than a
single criminal gang.The escalation of insecurity is
often how gangs and mob units form, and eventually
morph into militia and mafia-type groups made of
young boys who just need to get laid. The funny this is
that the sungusungu do not have a single known chain
of command or structures. This might be a farce
though because the group had offices and of course,
police support, in Kisii town because, what is running a
gang without an office? Ask Al Capone…
The Sungu Sungu had existed before 2002 at least as
vigilantes, but finally morphed into brutal gangs
over the years. They w ere most famous for lynching
suspected criminals and burning suspected witches .
Residents of villages and estates still contribute to
finance the operations of the sungusungu as volunteer
patrols, and you know, to torch witches and commit
extrajudicial and targeted killing s on their behalf.
The Sungu Sungu are actually one of a set of three
‘criminal gangs’ centered in Kisii that regularly feature
on lists of proscribed groups-the other two being the
chinkororo and the amachuma. Chinkororo translates to
‘We will rain on you’ and is either the most chilling
threat ever packed in a criminal group or simply a case
of misunderstood raindrops. They are traditional
warriors of the Kisii community, like the famous
Morans of the Maasai community. Traditionally, the
Chinkororo would mobilize in times of ethnic conflict to
protect the Abagusii families of Borabu and Gucha
districts. They did-admittedly, engage in cattle rustling
‘to compensate those whose livestock is stolen’
because, what is a good tribal warrior without a few
stolen cattle?
The amachuma were a curious addition to the
government ban on criminal gangs because they are
not a gang, and they do not even exis
t. ‘Amachuma’ might be from the slang ekegusii word
for ‘metal’ -‘richuma’- that ‘loosely translates to village
tough.’ Amachuma is the plural for richuma and is not
really a gang, but a specific cadre of youth, like saying
‘’ unemployed youth.’
Extracted from [Too late for worms]