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State must redeem its image after Tana massacre

Tana River is gushing with blood. Over 100 killed in the most macabre circumstances in three bouts of madness in a month. Children are among those killed, and their only ‘crime’ that took them to early grave is being seen to be tomorrow’s warriors.

Also killed are hapless women and old men, entrapped in their homes by gun-wielding raiders – whose mission is to ring them in their homesteads so that the hatchet men can strike those fleeing their burst of gunfire at the doorstep.

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