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Reclaiming NEP is no magic, it can be done

As far as Kenya’s Wild Wild West go the trio of Turkana, Baringo and Samburu counties perhaps carry the trophy. It is a desolate frontier of scorching sun and unforgiving terrain. The boom of the gun, wails and screams are its song. Blood and tears are its fluid.

From media accounts, you get a nauseating impression of a godforsaken people. A savage world of grief induced by marauding militia, too wily for the law apparatuses. It’s the sick man of Kenya. The poster-child of these atrocities is manifest in such names as Kapedo, Suguta Valley or Baragoi.

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