Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Kithure Kindiki has claimed that the cases of insecurity witnessed in the country's Capital, Nairobi, have been contained.

While updating the nation on progress achieved in his first 100 days in office on Monday, CS Kindiki noted that he has stepped up security in the City and the crime rate has slowly died down.

The Interior ministry boss has likewise claimed that owing to the increased numbers of security personnel in the police forces, crime across the nation has been shredded down by 13.5 per cent. 

"As our hardworking officers in the Elite specially trained formed units remain engaged to keep terror at bay, their colleagues on general duty have helped us to significantly reduce the general rate of crime in the country in the past three months," he said.

"Crime in the country has reduced by 13.5% from 8,297 reported incidents to 7,179 incidents in absolute numbers. Urban crime especially the Nairobi muggings that had threatened to disrupt our way of life and businesses in our capital city in the September, and October Season has now been contained."

CS Kindiki further noted that the nation is not out of the woods yet and he is aiming to have the crime rate numbers die down completely.

With the newly-graduated police officers in the forces, Kindiki said that more officers will be deployed to all crime spots marked in the nation to help achieve his zero-crime goal.

"The nearly 6000 newly-joined officers to the National Police Service (NPS) in the last 100 days as well as nearly 3000 Kenya Prisons Service officers they guarantee us the sustainability of fight against crime," he said.

"They will be immediately deployed to security hotspots in the country."

In the same breath, Kindiki said that he has also managed to "disrupt the banditry network" and vowed to be very abrasive to perpetrators until he permanently puts an end to the malady.

"On behalf of a hurting nation, I pledge to oversee the complete and permanent end of banditry and livestock rustling in our country. The die is cast," he said.

"I want to assure the people of Kenya that neither the occasional antics nor the glorification that bandits are getting from a tiny minority of naysayers, will deter our resolve to eliminate them and the threat they pose to our country's search for peace and progress," he added.

"This will not go instantly. We are clear in our minds that this problem will be with us for a short while."