New government should tackle banditry more seriously

Nothing expresses disdain for our security services more than a deliberate attack on security personnel. [Istockphoto]

On Monday this week, bandits killed 11 people, among them eight security officers in a raid in Namariat village, Turkana County. Nothing expresses disdain for our security services more than a deliberate attack on security personnel. Unfortunately, such disdain has been expressed in Kerio Valley time and again by bandits who seemingly are too good for our security services for, indeed, none of the masterminds ever gets caught.

When the hunter becomes the hunted, how secure can citizens who depend on the police for protection feel in their own motherland? That bandits still control the countryside decades after we obtained independence is an indictment on the government's ability to protect its citizens against aggression, whether internal or external.