Minerals and Vision 2030 prospects fueling border row

Meru, Kenya: Protestors blocked Meru Governor Peter Munya’s way, preventing him from leaving a hotel as the border dispute between Meru and Isiolo counties continued to simmer.

A group of Isiolo residents blocked the Meru governor and his entourage from leaving the hotel in Shaba Game Reserve where they had been holding a workshop with senior officials from the Commission on Revenue Allocation and Transition Authority last weekend. They left only after calling for police reinforcement, and through an alternative route to avoid the protestors.