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Is Sabaot land defence force militia regrouping in Mt Elgon?

Bungoma County Commissioner addressing the press on 23/2/2015 at Kanduyi Red Cross hall in Bungoma town. He has refuted claims of regrouping of the Sabaot Land Defense Force. (PHOTO:TITUS OTEBA/STANDARD)

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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