Chief Kariuki Twitter Policing

Chief Francis Kariuki is manning a location with population of twenty eight thousand people in Lanet Umoja, Nakuru North District. A while back I was using texting message to inform, reach out and stayed connected with the people in my constituency even though texting messaging was serving the purpose I was looking for a more advanced technology platform that would help me connect with people in my constituency in a broader way.

Digital chief trains chiefs at Salgaa Rongai

Chief Kariuki trains other Chiefs (From Daily Nation)
with his knowledge and expert in Twitter to fight crime,Chief Kariuki of Lanet in Nakuru has become a consultant of technological use to fight crime and is being invited in different places to train other local government workers how to use technology as community policing tool.

Nakuru men circumcision


Nakuru residents have been invited to go for a free medical male circumcision that is going on at Nakuru West Clinic.
Chief Francis Kariuki of Nakuru North’s Lanet Umoja last evening told HiviSasa.com that the voluntary exercise started yesterday and is scheduled to run until this Saturday, April 19.
Chief Kariuki, recognised worldwide as Kenya’s most digital local administrator, said all males above 12 years will be welcomed at the facility, located near Mama Ngina primary school.
He is advising residents to undergo the free cut, saying circumcised men have minimal chances of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, such as HIV and AIDS.
“All males of 12 years and above will be circumcised for free to reduce chances of acquiring sexually transmitted diseases like HIV and AIDS,” he said.
Chief Kariuki is widely known for his use of Twitter in community policing and fighting crime. He has been invited to several international forums to share his innovative use of social media.
From hivisasa

Lounching free WIFI network in Nakuru town


With Dennis Itumbi and Nakuru Governor  Kinuthia Mbugua 




Kenya Twitter Account Of Chief Francis Kariuki Stops Crime, Finds Lost Sheep


Kenya Twitter

LANET UMOJA, Kenya (AP) — When the chief in a western Kenyan village received an urgent call that thugs were invading a school teacher's home, he sent a message on Twitter. Within minutes residents in this village of stone houses gathered outside the home, and the thugs fled.
The tweet from Chief Francis Kariuki was only his latest attempt to improve village life by using the micro-blogging site Twitter. Kariuki regularly sends out tweets about missing children and farm animals, showing that the power of social media has reached even into a dusty African village.
He says he recently tweeted about a lost brown and white sheep, and the animal was soon recovered.
A recent report said that Twitter is enjoying big growth across Africa. It said South Africans use Twitter the most, but Kenya is second.
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In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, Chief Francis Kariuki reads a tweet on his mobile phone at his office in the village of Lanet Umoja, near Nakuru, in the Rift Valley of Kenya. (AP) 

How Twitter is fighting crime in Kenya

Twitter is being used as a crime-fighting tool by a tech-savvy village chief in Kenya. Francis Kariuki, the administrative chief of Lanet Umoja, has used the micro-blogging site for everything from tracking down missing sheep to stopping home invasions.

'Help, sheep missing': How Twitter is fighting crime in Kenya
Kariuki said that even the thieves in his village follow him on Twitter. Earlier this year, he tweeted about the theft of a cow, and later the cow was found abandoned, tied to a pole. 
His Twitter account is so popular that, he says, even the thieves in his village follow him.
One night his phone rang at 4am warning him that thieves were invading a school teacher's house.
He tweeted the message - and within minutes, villagers had gathered outside the house, frightening the thugs into fleeing.
"My wife and I were terrified," said teacher Michael Kimotho. "But the alarm raised by the chief helped."
Kariuki has also saved livestock with his lightning typing.
One of Kariuki's crime-fighting tweets
"There is a brown and white sheep which has gone missing with a nylon rope around its neck and it belongs to Mwangi's father," he tweeted recently in Swahili. The sheep was soon recovered.
Kariuki said that even the thieves in his village follow him on Twitter. Earlier this year, he tweeted about the theft of a cow, and later the cow was found abandoned, tied to a pole.
Kariuki's official Twitter page shows 300 followers, but the former teacher estimated that thousands of the 28,000 residents in his area receive the messages he sends out directly and indirectly. He said many of his constituents, mostly subsistence farmers, cannot afford to buy smart phones, but can access tweets through a third-party mobile phone application. Others forward the tweets via text message.
"Twitter has helped save time and money. I no longer have to write letters or print posters which take time to distribute and are expensive," Kariuki said.
Often Kariuki's tweets are about minor thefts - but they can also take a more serious turn
Kariuki, 47, said that he has been able to bring down the crime rate in Lanet Umoja from near-daily reports of break-ins to no such crimes in recent weeks. He also uses Twitter to send messages of hope, especially for the young and unemployed.
"Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not," one recent tweet said.
Kariuki said he intends to use Twitter to promote peace as Kenya prepares to hold another presidential election in the next year - the first since the 2007-08 postelection violence that killed more than 1,000 people.
A recent report said that Twitter is enjoying big growth across Africa. It said South Africans use Twitter the most, but Kenya is second in usage on the continent.
The research by Kenya-based Portland Communications and Tweetminster found that over the last three months of 2011, Kenyans produced nearly 2.5 million tweets. More than 80 per cent of those polled in that research said they mainly used Twitter for communicating with friends, 68 per cent said they use it to monitor news.
Beatrice Karanja, the head of Portland Nairobi, said the findings show that the use of Twitter is part of a revolution for governments that want to open dialogue with their citizens and businesses that want to talk with their consumers.
Rachel Bremer, a spokeswoman for Twitter, said her company wasn't aware of Kariuki and his innovative use of Twitter, but she called it "a great one."
"We are constantly amazed by the ways people all over the world are using Twitter to communicate," she said.
from www.telegraph.co.uk

About Chief Kariuki


Chief Francis Kariuki is manning a location with population of twenty eight thousand people in Lanet Umoja, Nakuru North District. 
A while back I was using texting message   to inform, reach out and stayed connected with the people in my constituency even though texting messaging was serving the purpose I was looking for a more advanced technology platform that would help me connect with people in my constituency in a broader way.

Twitter Policing involves using social media technology  to reduce crime , crime prevention tips,  community crime surveillance which involves neighborhood  watch and crime-reporting activities, altering the community of crime or danger, incidents reporting involving loss of life, property, animals, search and rescue of lost children and elderly, disasters reporting (fire), prevention and fighting illicit brews and local drug peddling , sharing community empowerment  and capacity building opportunities and upward mobilization of the community.  Twitter Policing involves using social media technology  to reduce crime , crime prevention tips,  community crime surveillance which involves neighborhood  watch and crime-reporting activities, altering the community of crime or danger, incidents reporting involving loss of life, property, animals, search and rescue of lost children and elderly, disasters reporting (fire), prevention and fighting illicit brews and local drug peddling , sharing community empowerment  and capacity building opportunities and upward mobilization of the community. 
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