President Uhuru Kenyatta battles insecurity nightmare in the north

Police at the troubled Loruk border point in Baringo County where several houses were torched by unknown people. (PHOTO: FILE)

NAIROBI: As President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government approaches midterm, the demand to restore security in parts of the country reeling from banditry and terrorism ranks high on his priorities.

But what is emerging is that the Government will need something akin to the Marshall Plan that lifted the US out of economic depression in the 1930s to even come close to guaranteeing security in Kenya’s historically lawless northern and north-eastern regions.