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Locals enjoy peace as guns go silent in Kerio Valley

Before July last year, Cheserek Kilimo, 72, spent countless cold nights in snake-infested caves on the Kerio escarpments.

Back then, his farm in Kabishoi village in Kerio Valley was a bandits’ battlefield. Every time the bullets started flying, Kilimo and hundreds of villagers, including the elderly, women and children would flee to the caves.

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