Alarming is the fact that these are daylight robberies. Robbers take advantage of traffic snarl-ups to escape for they are advantaged by their ease mobility
In most cases these motorcycles are used to snatch handbags, laptop bags and other items from victims.
It is however difficult to identify, arrest and prosecute these criminals since they hide their faces in the helmets they wear. They've even gone as far a removing number plates from their bikes.
Not long ago gunmen on motorcycles shot two village elders in Mombasa killing one of then on the spot. Two weeks prior to that, a police officer was sprayed with bullets outside a hotel .
Something should be done to address this.