Relief as bandit-prone areas finally get phone network

Safaricom's Joseph Kihurani explains a point to Communication Authority's Gitonga Mutungi (left), Wako Gababo and James Long’ole at Safaricom’s base station at Kimela, Kitui County. [Philip Muasya, Standard]

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) and mobile telephony operators have kicked off a drive to connect banditry prone areas in Kitui County to the communications network.

This is a big relieve to residents of Mwingi North and Kitui East who have in the past borne the brunt of banditry attacks by armed herders from the neighbouring counties of Tana River and Garissa.