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Listen to the cry of women and improve security in troubled Kerio Valley

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Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi talks to an elderly woman when he toured Tot and Kapsowar to asses the ongoing security operations. [ Courtesy]

Kerio Valley has become synonymous with banditry, killings and violence which, according to Harvard Prof. Robert Rotberg, is idiosyncratic for ‘failed states’.

Prof Rotberg says states are considered failed when they are consumed by internal violence to the point that public good such as the rule of law, political participation, education and healthcare cease to exist. Other indicators of a failed state include ‘loss of control over territory, criminal violence and the rise of warlords’.

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