Florah Koech

1 week ago | nation.africa | Florah Koech

A police reservist has been shot dead, while four others were seriously injured in a fresh bandit attack in Chemoe village in Baringo North. The 2pm incident happened when an unknown number of armed attackers descended on the village, attacking herders before driving away an unknown number of livestock belonging to Ezekiel Kaptum. According to Baringo North Sub-County Police Commander Mohammed Abdi, during the attack, a police reservist, Evans Kamworor, was shot dead.

1 week ago | nation.africa | Florah Koech

More than 25 national police reservists (NPRs) have been arrested and sacked in connection to criminal activities in the restive Kerio Valley, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has said. More than 200 other suspects have also been arrested in the security operation launched in March 2023 dubbed Operation Maliza Uhalifu, with more 200 illegal guns also seized, the CS said on Friday in Kampi Samaki, Baringo North during a security meeting.

2 weeks ago | nation.africa | Florah Koech |Barnabas Bii

There are growing fears that the deadly attacks in the insecure counties of the North Rift region are mutating from banditry raids and disputes over water and pasture to conflicts over resource management following the discovery of oil and precious minerals. The warring Pokot, Turkana, Tugen and Illchamus communities are fighting for control of areas they believe contain oil, geothermal energy or precious minerals such as limestone, as well as land along the agriculturally rich Kerio River belt.

2 weeks ago | nation.africa | Barnabas Bii |Florah Koech

What you need to know:Mr Murkomen directed all the reservists will operate under the command of officer commanding stations. The CS said re-vetted NPRs who will be found collaborating with criminals will be sacked and prosecuted. The fresh vetting of police reservists is among several measures announced by government to tackle banditry in the restive North Rift.

3 weeks ago | nation.africa | Florah Koech

When high school student Kelvin Togoch, 17, sneaked out of his parents’ home in Baringo Central last Thursday with his uncle’s motorcycle, he had no idea he was sneaking to meet his death. The Form Four student and KCSE candidate Kapkirwok Day Secondary School and first-born child of Patrick Kipsoi had sneaked out of his parents’ home on his uncle’s motorcycle, only for his body to be found rotting in a forest in Kabartonjo, Baringo North, a few days later.