Stop fighting and marry our girls, MPs tell cattle raiders

Nandi County woman rep Zipporah Kering (left) and nominated Senator Agnes Zani arrive at Turkwell Gorge in West Pokot County for a peace meeting with the Turkana and Pokot communities on June 21, 2015 . The two are members of the parliamentary committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity. They told the villagers to stop the conflict over cattle. [PHOTO: ALPHONCE SHIUNDU/STANDARD]

Women MPs have promised illiterate young raiders “young beautiful wives” in exchange for them to stop the age-old practice.

It was one of the solutions the MPs threw at the warriors, raiders and elders of the communities in the cattle-rustling belt of northern Kenya, if only to save lives and lure investors to help lift the struggling communities out of poverty.