Passengers along the Njoro-Molo route are lamenting over a gang of chokoraas operating at the Uchumi area, along with Gate House.
Matatus that operate along the Njoro-Molo route stop at the area to drop passengers and the gang has made it their zone.
Immediately a matatu slows down at the area, they quickly open the boots and pull down luggage.
"They pulled down my bag from the Nissan boot at lightning speed. I was not even alighting and were it not for a friend who had alighted, my bag would have been stolen," Irene Chepchumba said.
The gang, of about 20 grown up chokoraas, is so brutal that not even matatu operators can stop them from pulling down passengers' luggage without permission.
"They always mark you and end up abducting you at night and attack you with knives and crude weapons," a driver who operates at the nearest Namoki Sacco said.
So daring are the boys that on Friday, February 23, they almost beat up a lady who complained about her luggage.
Apparently, two boys who had pulled down the lady's bags demanded to be allowed to carry them.
The lady feared the safety of her luggage and rejected their word.
"They said I will not carry my bags until I pay them for offloading them. I had not told them to do so because it is usually the conductor who does it. One of them pushed me with his index finger and wanted to slap me," Emily Njeri said.
Angry members of the public intervened and saved Njeri.
A driver told this writer how he witnessed a university girl being assaulted after alighting at the Uchumi area.
"They rushed and carried away her bag. As she demanded they put it down, a group surrounded her and started groping her. She screamed and started crying, I called those taxi driver and we went and rescued the girl. They could have raped her," the driver said.
The incident took place at around 9 pm, the driver said.
Passengers want the county government and the police to crackdown the gang.