The Government has proposed a raft of measures aimed at enhancing cross-border safety and security.
The Ministry of Interior, through Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo, notes that the measures, through the proposed confederation of East African Community (EAC), if implemented will strengthen peace and security among member states.
Omollo, in a statement dated Friday, May 26, noted that there is an urgent need for a structured framework for resolving conflicts, mostly between border communities.
The PS referred to a recent feud between Kenya and Ugandan pastoral communities, resulting in communal clashes. Omollo has appealed for a solution towards enhancing the harmonious sharing of pastoral resources.
"We recently had an engagement with our counterparts from Uganda, to where our communities are crossing over, whether it's because of drought when they're looking for resources to support their livelihoods. And we continue to have these engagements," Omollo noted.
He further suggested the need for elevation of bilateral intervention between the EAC member states, stating that in most cases "the boundaries are not very clear".
"If you look at our individual states, we have situations where the boundaries are not very clear or contested. And for me, that will be one of the things that we would want to find a way of sorting out even as we go into the confederation. In spaces where there are those contests, we need to encourage joint engagements."
The proposed political union is expected to bring together the seven states of the East African Community to promote solidarity and strengthen the political and governance institutions of the member states.
Omollo's sentiments come on the back of growing concern between Kenya and Uganda over the fight for pastoral land.
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni through an executive order threatened to expel Turkana's from his country over cattle rustling and smuggling of illegal guns.
"I give the Turkana population six months to implement my directives. If, however, the issue of the guns illegally entering Uganda, the hand-over of the criminals who killed our geologists, or the use of traditional justice and the return of the stolen cattle, are not resolved, I will have no alternative but to expel all the Kenyan Turkana's and their cattle and they will never be allowed to re-enter Uganda with their cattle," read part of the order.
The Turkana are said to have raided 2,245 cattle from the Jie and killed three geologists, one officer, and a soldier that was guarding them.
