Shops offering phone vouchers have sprung up around the town. Nziago shares the view that security has improved, but is still a problem. ‘Telephone is helpful for us to prevent insecurity, yet we realise that insecurity nonetheless is prevailing. We do have phones that we use to try to stop it, but it doesn’t always help. Bandits took my four goats about six months ago … [They] were my savings account. When there was a problem I could sell one, or sell one for my children’s education. It is a huge loss. I am still crying about it’