About 600,000 firearms in wrong hands, says report

Isiolo County Commissioner George Natembeya hands a gun to Peter Losu (left), a member of the Isiolo County Assembly. The MCA was given back his illegally acquired G3 rifle after he surrendered it for registration following a Government amnesty. [Photo: file/standard]

There are around 600,000 illicit arms circulating in the country, the Government has said.

The arms are mostly found among pastoralist communities in North Rift, North Eastern and Upper Eastern.