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State to enlist 450 reservists to contain banditry

Interior CS Kithure KIndiki. [Kelly Ayodi, Standard]

The State will deploy 450 National Police Reservists in Kerio Valley to boost security following the killing of two people on Sunday.

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki, while on a tour of Ketut village where two school girls were killed, directed reinstatement of 300 NPRs withdrawn in 2019. He also ordered the recruitment of 150 more.

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