Interior CS Kithure Kindiki on Sunday ordered residents to vacate some parts of the North Rift region within 24 hours.
In the statement, Kindiki said the specific areas are suspected to be used by the bandits as hideouts.
He has also issued a stern warning that whoever is found in the said areas is to be treated as a criminal by the security agencies.
"All law-abiding civilians are ordered to vacate the areas immediately...."
"The above-specified spaces are hereby declared scenes of crime, and any person found therein will be treated as a suspect of armed banditry, or as a suspect of aiding and abetting banditry, or an accessory after the fact. Everyone must get out," the statement said.
According to CS Kindiki, the specified areas are also home to dangerously armed criminals.