A new report by the National Crime Research Centre (NCRC) has revealed that half of Kenya's 55 million population were victims of crime in 2023.
The Centre, in its survey titled "National Crime Victimization" released on Monday, specifically highlighted Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays as the days of the week when individuals are more likely to become victims of crime.
According to the report, 52 per cent of the respondents could not specify a particular day when they experienced victimisation, but 16.2 per cent identified Saturdays as the most likely day.
Furthermore, 9.5 per cent of the respondents selected Saturdays, while 8.4 per cent indicated Friday as the most dangerous day.
On timing, 32 per cent of the respondents could not pinpoint a specific time while 22 per cent revealed that they were victims of crime early at night (between 7:00 pm and 11:59 pm).
20.9 per cent revealed that late night (between 1:00 am and 3:59 am) was the most dangerous while 9.6 per cent flagged out midnight (12:00 am - 12.59 am) as unsafe hours.
According to the report, the most prevalent crimes experienced were highlighted as housebreaking (28.5%), general stealing (26.6%), and theft of stock (20.7%).
Others were burglary (12.9%), stealing from a person (16.6%) stealing from a building (12.8%), robbery with violence (9.8%) and theft of farm produce (4.3%).
"The main victims of crimes in the localities covered were women(77.4%), men(57.3%), youths(36.1%), elderly persons(26.5%), and children(20.0%)," read the report in part.
The survey identified factors leading to certain categories of persons being more vulnerable to crime victimization as economic status(75.8 %), gender (49.4%), age(41.6%), lifestyle(36.8%) social background(17.3%), literacy status (11.6%), and marital status(6.2%).
84.3 per cent of the respondents revealed that they lost property after being attacked while 58.8 per cent developed a fear of the public.
"The findings of the survey established that 50.7% of the study respondents had been direct victims of crime," added the report.
