Nairobi, April 21 -- Kenya's security apparatus is facing a striking paradox.

While it has earned international praise for dismantling criminal gang networks in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, it is struggling to contain a surge in gang activity at home,  a crisis that Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen says is being fuelled by politicians.

Even as the CS made the revelation on Tuesday, he did not explain why some gangs, reportedly operating under police protection, have been used to unleash violence on unarmed civilians.

The contradiction has raised fears that Kenya's greatest threat to national stability may not be external, but internal  driven by political actors across the divide who are allegedly reviving and financin...