I noted this behaviour of "tribal" thugs.
1. Kikuyu- they inform you of robbery,ask you to co-operate so they get what they want. If you co-operate you can negotiate they have their share &may leave something little for you to keep going ,leave alive and well so that you hustle again for your dependants them included. lines they use "boss tuachie yetu" "buda hatuna maneno nikutafuta riziki" "tusaidie tukusaidie" . once through with them they communicate to the group "huyo tumemalizana naye" & may escort you to avoid "double taxation". If you don't co-operate the worst happens.
2. Luo&Luhyia - no alert you're hit hard by object or fist. try to negotiate you get thoroughly beaten to bleeding, they take everything including documents they can't use. they leave you for the dead and run away laughing "uliona Ile bare nilimuweka?" "wacha Ile ngumi nilimsukumia ee mpaka akatoa nduru" " na zile visu nimemudunga akipona yee ni ndume".
After seeing suffering families of murdered bread winners where the bread winners tried to negotiate with the thugs but in vain. I then thought if. the thugs problem is "money" it's better to rob me & leave me alive and well than rob me and kill me. I may be wrong but then again I could be right.
Everybody STEALS, a THIEF is one who's CAUGHT stealing something of LITTLE VALUE. !!!