Bandits escalate terror in North Rift as State options fail

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki makes an address in Nairobi on November 15, 2022. [Kelly Ayodi, Standard]

All options including the recent reinstatement and deployment of over 300 police reservists, increased number of police stations, signing of a peace accord and proposed disarmament of bandits have failed to bring calm in troubled Kerio Valley.

Elimination of individuals suspected to be behind the incessant mayhem in areas occupied by pastoralists in the North Rift counties, through extra-judicial methods has also not cowed brazen bandits who continue to kill and maim.