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Is the ragtag Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF) militia regrouping?

Bungoma County Commissioner Mohamed Maalim

BUNGOMA: There is no hope that internally displaced residents of Mt Elgon will ever be resettled 44 years since the government began the exercise to give them land.

Trouble flared up in Mount Elgon in August 2006 when a section of residents formed the Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF), a militia that visited terror and fear on women, men and children.

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