Religious leaders welcome operation against bandits, call for disarmament

Security personnel deployed in Pura on January 31, 2023, to pursue bandits who killed two herders and stole 30 cattle. [Michael Saitoti, Standard]

Religious leaders in Turkana have welcomed a government operation to flush out bandits in the North Rift region.

Mr Yusuf Aremons, chairman of the Turkana Inter-Religious Council, told The Standard that they are fully behind the ongoing efforts to make the region safer and more peaceful.