Curiously, the picture painted by the Red Gang's members didn't match the one provided by the interviewed practitioners, who described the clan as a hierarchical organisation driven by a strict code of conduct and set on
recruiting vulnerable youths in its ranks.
She said, the current economic hardship, which has led to high unemployment and school dropout rates, has made a large section of the
youth vulnerable to the entrapments of some mischievous politicians, who would like to
recruit them to engage in violence in the November 7 general elections.