Statistics have it that Syria is the most insecure place in the whole world!
Now that is not good news by any stretch of imagination.
To be ranked the best albeit in the negative isn't very fascinating, and that is what Bondeni residents in Nakuru Town East are fighting to rectify.
That Bondeni is the most insecure area not only in Nakuru County but the country at large as was reported two years ago by the Security Research and Information Centre, is a baptism that has lived to haunt its residents and they are just not ready to stand condemned.
For example in Nakuru town, tales are aboundon how people get robbed in broad daylight in the slum, ladies defiled, illicit brews thrive or how police officers have to fire gunshots every dawn just to announce to criminals that they are around.
However, Pascal Onyango says gone are the days when criminals reigned supreme in the area.
"It is all a fallacy. Bondeni is very safe these days. The bad tag is a machination of detractors," he says.
Erick Kirima concurs with Onyango's sentiments saying the whole issue has been blown out of proportion.
"Bondeni is very safe and nobody has been robbed in broad daylight as is reported. If there is such an incident, then it must be an isolated case," he says .
Doris Musau on her part blames the bad publicity on the media saying they are overly biased and lopsided in their reporting.
Interestingly, the semi-urban settlement is also home to several police lines.
Whether the allegations are true or not can only be judged by the hands of time but as now Bondeni is safe...at least according to its residents.