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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.
By Friday, more than 13 people in Elgeyo Marakwet and West Pokot alone had been shot dead and several others injured by armed bandits in cattle rusting missions and revenge attacks.
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