By Liban Golicha
Moyale, Kenya: Tension remains high in Moyale following tribal clashes that have left ten people dead and scores of others injured.
Moyale MP Roba Duba Thursday said the ethnic violence affected Heilu, Odda, Moyale town, Manyata and Funannyata.
The legislator further said more than 300 houses in Manyata, Heilu, Odda and Sessi villages were set ablaze during the deadly clashes.
He added 11 other people were nursing wounds in various health centres within the town and at Moyale District Hospital.
Duba said relative calm had returned although tension remained high within and outside Moyale town. Police are patrolling the area to avert more deaths.
On Thursday, County Assembly leaders together with top security officials held a consultative meeting on how to contain the situation.
The leaders later in the afternoon met elders from three warring communities and representatives from other tribes living in Moyale.
Recent killings
But while addressing journalists at Al-Yusra Hall, Duba refuted claims, which appeared in a local daily newspaper, that he had linked the recent killings to the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) of Ethiopia.
The former Nairobi town clerk said he would take legal action against the media house that published the false allegation concerning his sentiments.
He claimed some politicians were behind the false remarks published on August 28.
“I categorically said Ethiopian militia were behind the Funannyata attack but I have never mentioned OLF in my press conference in Nairobi,” he told the Press in Moyale.
