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Crime in the streets but the (inaudible)
fears and many slum dwellers

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knows only the too well, but
what if crime and development

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are more tangled up that we care to admit.

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[music]

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[music]

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Mucina and Boniface, the
motorcycle boys of Korogocho.

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They are among the first to own motorcycles on
the Nairobi slum, they call the \"Dirt Island\"

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Some say that motorcycle boys own
this slum and they\'ve their own ideas

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about improving slums. Are they at threat

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or did they have anything to teach us?
Cannas, one of their new recruits,

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he is the rebel

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even by motorcycle boys standards.

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This is their story.

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Cannas home Korogocho

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is Kenya\'s fourth largest slum. Dirt Island
has been home to many Kenyan (inaudible).

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Like Canna, many young men here get involved
in crimes at some point in their lives.

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[non-English narration]

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Now, I came to Korogocho
when I was 12 years old.

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I used to steal cloths from the cloths line

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in the neighborhood. I
would have just ware them,

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sometime I\'d wear or sell them.
Canna (inaudible) fortunate

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to move to Korogocho considering his line
of work. It was almost as if the slum

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was designed for crime. I
at least don\'t have issues.

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But if you pass on the main
road, you may meet the police

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and get shot by them. That\'s why
I use the allies when I steal

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because you can hide here. Canna lives in

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one of the worst areas in Korogocho,
Grogon. Grogon is a hot bed of crime,

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because of the abandoned houses
the criminal hide out in.

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There are lots of stories about why you
should be very careful walking these streets

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even in the day time.

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I was attacked by two boys who were
standing on the road. They grabbed my shirt

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and tore it. I tried fighting them off
but one of them stabbed me in my back,

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and the other one hit me with his fist.

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They stabbed me and took everything.

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(inaudible) you can get right.
Two or, it depend, (inaudible).

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Most of them we find, they actually
very severe to treat here.

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[sil.]

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Much crime here is spontaneous.

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With many places to hide in and run away
to, it\'s tempting to seize opportunities

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when they arise. You can rob someone
and no one goes to the cops

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because they are afraid. We
never plan these crimes.

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Sometimes may be three of us just ideally will decide to grab a suspecting
people, drag them into the bushes and then move on to the next victim.

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We never sit down to plan
for these crimes, you see?

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Canna\'s ambition was too big for Korogocho.

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It may seem designed for crime,
but there\'s too little to steal.

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So Canna search for wealthier
target in central Nairobi.

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There are many people in town, man.
You can look closely

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at someone and see that they have money.
I can tell from the way hold their bag.

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You can see someone walking on the
road, holding the bags tightly.

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All is looking over their shoulder.
I\'m very observant.

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This (inaudible)

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Canna started working in West lands

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a pop suburb of Nairobi. This
was after joining the Mungiki,

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a notorious vigilante group. He\'d make
serious profits by extorting money

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from mini bus owners. So
I joined the Mungiki.

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About (inaudible) were initiated
(inaudible) at that time in west lands.

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We started working on those streets.

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We would harass the people especially
the mini bus drivers in those routes.

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Us guys would burn one minibus
and then wait for about a week.

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When we go ask the driver for next, you
think he wouldn\'t give you, he\'ll give you.

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[sil.]

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These guys were my good
friends, we worked together.

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We used to help each other out, yeah.

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They all died.

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[sil.]

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I thought about my life and said no.
The way people are dying,

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I can\'t die without leaving something
behind. I met a girl named Shiko

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and we had a baby girl.
Her name is bridge, yeah.

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What made me and Shiko split up,

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well, I cheated on her.
So that\'s the main reason

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that we disagreed with shiko.

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Mucina also saw most of his friends

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die on the streets, before he
became the original Motorcycle boy.

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He had an idea, which might be found on
in conventional development economics.

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A friend of mine told me, he had a plan

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and we would make a lot of money from it.

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(inaudible) rob a
supermarket in (inaudible).

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He took profit 250,000 (inaudible)
The idea profits of crime

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plowed into a legitimate
business in the slums.

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With that money I bought a bike and setup
at a stage. We were only two motorbikes,

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and then we increased to four. At first, people
were uncomfortable with riding motorcycles.

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But after we became many,
we got used to it.

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Mucino and his crew of
motorcycle boys now provide

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much needed taxi services within Korogocho.

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From four motorcycle boys

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in the beginning, they\'ve
grown to 40 including Canna.

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I never planned to be a motorcycle boy.

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When I heard that the cops are hunting
for me and counting my bullets

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I decided to stop going
to west lands for work.

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I hung out at the motorcycle stage

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for almost a week.

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Most of the guys

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are a former criminals. We told
them, we\'ve tried, it doesn\'t work,

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that there was never lot money to meet
their needs and being independent.

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Canna didn\'t use his crime
money from westlands

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as wise as Mucina did. His
love for gambling didn\'t help.

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Unable to afford his own bike he now works

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for a fellow motorcycle boy who takes
his cut from his daily earnings.

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It (inaudible) my money because

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I have to take care of bike like it\'s mine.

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The bike get little problem that
cost 100 to 200 shillings to fix.

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I can\'t tell the owner about those little
problems. So I get it fixed somewhere

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and just pay.

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Like before I used to get
serious money, I think then

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if I\'d known I would have spent
that money better but I didn\'t.

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Like now,

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I used to get 200 or
300,00 shillings before.

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If I got this 100,000 shilling now, people
will be amazed at how it invest it.

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You see a bike is amazing.

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It\'s a lot of fun. When I
have a bike, I really have

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a lot of fun on the bike alone.

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Boniface one of the two
original Motorcycle boys

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feels that crime profits have led to
a lot of improvements in Korogocho,

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more than most people would care to admit.

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Here is Korogocho, he find that someone has setup
a business but our shop is part time employment.

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After stealing outside people come
back and invest in business here.

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You can\'t just sit around
idling, just relaxing.

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You look suspicious but business that do well
here are the illegal once that cause harm.

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Canna doesn\'t make the
profits he used to make

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from fulltime crime, but what he
makes from the bikes is just enough.

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For example, sometimes business is good

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and they can make a profit of about 1000
shillings that takes of all of my expanses.

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Most of my money is spent
on my child Bridget.

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When she grows, I pray that she reads hard

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and that she agrees to study
hard in school. I would hate

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to hear that when Bridget is older after growing
up here, that she\'s been raped in this area,

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I wouldn\'t want to hear that. Those things
happen a lot in the place like Korogocho.

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It would be my joy if she lives here

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and is growing up that Korogocho
is also changing at the same time.

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Everyday Mucina walks his kids to school

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in the nearby Dandora Estate before
going to work at the biker stage.

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He too feels that the motorcycle boys
have made a difference in Korogocho.

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These bikes are also a form a upgrading

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because we thought people could not walk there
at nights. People are being robbed a lot,

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but now that the bikes are
(inaudible) they are now safe.

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[sil.]

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Sometimes I use these bikes
when I\'m late from work

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because the road is not safe for
night, there are many thieves.

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So this bike really help
us a lot when we use them.

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But the bikes are not as safe for everyone,
is Mucina would like to believe there.

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[sil.]

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Many accidents happen in
Korogocho because of speeding

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by some of the thrill
seeking motorcycle boys.

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[sil.]

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Accidents on the roads are unavoidable.

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Because the road is very congested
especially in the evenings

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and right now the road doesn\'t have
enough space for pedestrians to pass.

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A new road has just been built in Korogocho

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and it\'s the first slum
upgrading project here.

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It circles all the way around the
slum hence the name Dirt Island.

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Mucina feels that overall the
new road is helping Korogocho.

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We never had the time
for road in Korogocho.

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Other businesses would have continued doing well,
but the price would not have succeeded without

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a new road. Before when a
motorbikes use to hit a pot holes

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they will get spoilt very quickly.

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The motorcycle club may have
some issues like speeding

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but they have managed to win
over certain important people.

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Many of us guys don\'t have
licenses so the police

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used to disturb us a lot.

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So we had to go and speak to the chief
also the one in kayobangi and we told them

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we are just young people and instead of returning
to (inaudible) we would like to just do this work

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and gradually we get licenses.

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The motorcycle club is doing
pretty well according to Mucina,

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but for Canna who doesn\'t own his own
bike yet, life is still a bit tricky.

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Right now, I\'m 50-50.

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There\'s nothing to like,

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I really think, \"Should I leave this?
Should I continue?\"

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It\'s hard to rely on money
from this bag sometimes,

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especially having a wife. When you have a wife this all
is a need that arises that requires a lot of money.

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For instance you may need
about 5000 shillings

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to sort out an emergency and that\'s
my responsibility. So that means

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I need to go to the westlands
or to steal to get the money.

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Canna is still not sure
about the motorcycle club

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and he is not alone. Khadija is the member
of the Korogocho urban upgrading community.

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She feels that building a youth center will
be a more constructive solution to crime.

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The youth center is about
linking (inaudible)

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youth have in Korogocho business and then
also they\'ll be a maybe mentoring process,

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from the center which will be
acting as a coordination point,

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may be they can be derived away
from the crime or they (inaudible)

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Motorcycle boy Mucina is
not just a Motocycle boy,

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he is involved in slum upgrading
with Khadija and supports

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the youth center idea.

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When the youth don\'t have a place set
aside for them to meet, it\'s not good.

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But when they get to meet up and
talk I think they\'ll do a lot.

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They\'ll help each other and they will grow.

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But Boniface feels that crimes
is about one thing only

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and that the solution to it very simple.

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Here is Korogocho life is difficult.
We don\'t grow up with money.

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So when you find a means of getting
money, it has a big influence on you.

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Getting money is very
important here in the getto,

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especially for the youth. So Boniface
believes in supporting businesses

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like the Motorcycle club and others
that have followed in its wake.

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The idea of opening of car wash was
to help clear security or what?

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The idea of operating a car
wash was to security purposes

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and also to generate the
income for the youth.

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This young group started the car wash after
seeing all the motorcycles in their neighborhood.

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When business was low, we still
wash at least eight bikes.

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We\'d all end up getting
enough money for ourselves.

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But the car wash was short lived.

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They didn\'t have the motorcycle club\'s luck. The water would
shut off after people complained about their homes flooding.

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We have dug a trench here. See,
it never affected anyone\'s home.

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The trench was here, but it\'s now been covered with
stones. I think it was just people looking down

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at us as they use. It\'s a community thing.

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Many girls of the car wash and they had kids and we
were relying on this money. Now, we\'re just idle.

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So we just become thieves.

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Motorcycle clubs, car washes
it\'s not what most people

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would think of as the best way to improve
to slums. They\'re breaking the rules

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and the law and not just over jobs.
Like slum dwellers the world over,

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Canna helps himself to energy.

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I pull this wire,

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I pulled it like this, can you
see where it\'s coming from,

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can you see where it\'s going?
So it comes in here directly.

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Now, by the time they come here,

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how long do you think it will take me to remove these wires?
Before who come? We see them on the road, they come in.

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Which guys? The Kenyapa company.
I just disconnect the wiring

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and push the wires into the house and
drill these other cables to the back.

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Then I\'ll reconnect everything after they leave.
The other wires that are connected on the ground,

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but you can\'t see them. They are hidden. Now,
if you look at the power lines in this area,

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can you see any proper lines
going to anyone\'s home?

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For instance, my neighbor can ask me to
connect his power and I\'ll just pull out

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some wires for him and connect
him, then he\'ll give me some cash,

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because I have to keep on replacing

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the wiring when it wears out.
I never pay for electricity.

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If I need electricity, isn\'t
there so much of it over here?

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As the motorcycle boys do things
their own way, slum life is changing

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across Nairobi. There are
plans to upgrade slums

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and build more new roads and houses.
And that\'s sparked a debate here.

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Best to help individuals with business like
the motorcycles, or investing infrastructure

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and building new houses.

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These houses do not represent Korogocho,
Korogocho is the people who are living here.

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So if the people can be made
aware on what is good or bad,

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that is upgrading that can
actually help people.

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(inaudible) small important

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because everyone in the community benefits
from that, but if you look at individuals

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it\'s very important to
look may be to help them

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or support individuals. But
how many can you support?

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There are new homes being built
in the nearby Kibera slum.

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And now Korogocho, the dirt
island could well be next.

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But new housing projects
don\'t always change people.

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Even if they build here, even
if they build good houses,

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this will always be a ghetto.
Someone like me lives here,

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and they\'ll build and
I\'ll rent those houses.

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And even if I become wealthy,

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I will not move to middle
class suburbs like Buruburu.

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If it\'s possible, I\'ll move down there.

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Down to the most feared place
in Korogocho and live there.

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We also have Ghettos in uptown
places like westlands area.

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On one side, not the rich people\'s houses

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and the other side we have cheap
houses made out of iron sheets.

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Then if they build proper houses
here, I know what Korogocho is.

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But for Mucina a new Korogocho

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is a real possibility. It\'s what he feels
they\'re all working towards, somehow.

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[sil.]

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In a new Korogocho (inaudible) need,
a new building that are durable.

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We need good roads too, so that we can have

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a safe estate. (inaudible)
to anything like that.

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The new korogocho is reformed in all area.
No drunker,

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no drug abuses, good houses, security

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and people having title deeds
to show ownership of plots.

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May be in three years to come.

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We want to have a complete (inaudible)
korogocho at least 90 percent of Korogocho,

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but maybe what the youth with their motorcycle
have done is maybe like 10 percent.

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We want to reach at least 90 percent,
if not a 100. And we are looking at

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the vast activities because not everyone
can ride motorcycle or motorbikes.

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Not everyone can ride bikes,
but the motorcycle club

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has been successful in attracting
and reforming some criminals.

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Boniface feels that its important
to include all rule breakers,

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criminals and potential criminals
in the Dirt Islands future.

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If the youth are not involved
in upgrading process

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it won\'t happen, because these
are the people who are thieves

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and they are the ones who
can destroy things here.

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The administration is not
stronger then the gangs here.

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Millions of people live in slums like these

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across the world. Improving their lives
is one of the millennium development

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goals one that often seems just out of
reach. Do we need to listen more closely

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to the people we\'re trying to help?

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They should have come and asked us our opinion on
constructing those roads. They put big bumps on that road,

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that are too big for motorcycles,
they are bumps meant for cars.

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The youth are trying to become
independent so they should

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support the bikes more.

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Besides this as the youth, and the future

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we leave it for other to carry it on.

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Canna is not waiting on the future though. He is
making his own rules which may not beep anybody

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else\'s but he\'s got the
energy if anybody wants it.

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If you ask a child what the
hope for them in the future,

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you won\'t find anyone

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who\'ll tell you that they want to be poor.

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If I had my own bike, you
won\'t see me in westland

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or find me going to steal.

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I can\'t just sit still,

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always need to be busy, doing something.

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