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2 weeks ago | 
nation.africa | Barnabas Bii |Florah Koech
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has ordered an intensified manhunt for suspects behind the Thursday killing of a Catholic priest in Kerio Valley, even as he claimed that the ongoing security operation in the region is successful. The CS, who visited the family of the slain priest, Fr Alloys Cheruiyot Bett, said that deaths due to banditry have reduced from 66 people between January and May last year to 22 in the same period this year.
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2 weeks ago | 
nation.africa | Florah Koech |Barnabas Bii
A fresh wave of attacks in the volatile Kerio Valley has dealt a significant blow to state-led efforts to restore order and dismantle criminal networks in the region. The area, which had enjoyed relative calm for nearly nine months, is now reeling from a resurgence of violence that has left over 22 people dead in Baringo and Elgeyo Marakwet counties, with many others nursing gunshot wounds.
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2 weeks ago | 
nation.africa | Florah Koech |Barnabas Bii
Police are investigating an incident in which a Catholic priest was shot dead by an armed criminal in the Kapkobil area in the insecurity-prone Kerio Valley region on Thursday. Father Allois Cheruiyot Bett, who was attached to Tot Catholic Parish in Marakwet East sub-County, heading back to the Parish headquarters in Tot on foot after conducting community prayers, popularly referred to as Jumuiya, when an armed assailant shot at him.
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3 weeks ago | 
nation.africa | Florah Koech
Krop Lonyangapat* was among five men sent from Akoret village in Tiaty West to Lomelo in neighbouring Suguta with a special mission to spy on grazing fields. The assignment, which would take close to a month, is the most difficult and involved monitoring the movement of animals and herders in detail. They could map out the region, including escape routes and dead grounds, which could pave the way for actual raids usually planned for several days to ensure everything goes uninterrupted.
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3 weeks ago | 
nation.africa | Florah Koech
The recent arrest of 25 National Police Reservists (NPRs) in Baringo County has exposed the dark underbelly of a security strategy that was meant to stabilise volatile regions in the North Rift — but is now being linked to worsening criminal activity. Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen made the revelation during a security meeting in Kampi Samaki, Baringo North, a fortnight ago, confirming that the arrested NPRs were implicated in a spate of attacks in Kerio Valley.
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3 weeks ago | 
nation.africa | Florah Koech
Armed juvenile bandits have been terrorising North Rift residents and giving security agencies sleepless nights, baffling even the government itself. The national government is coming to terms with the reality of young boys aged between 13 and 17 years who have been recruited into banditry and trained to handle sophisticated weapons on the battlefields, engaging security officers in banditry-prone villages in the region.
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3 weeks ago | 
nation.africa | LILYS NJERU |Florah Koech
Lake Bogoria was once a spectacle. In the 1980s, according to 82-year-old Richard Yegon, the lake was home to thousands of flamingos. “There existed Kesubo swamp along River Waseges that drained its water into the lake. It was evergreen and served as a grazing field for dozens of villages adjacent to it. But locals converted it to farmland, reducing the number of flamingos,” he explains. When the residents gather, they also talk about something else that has been happening.
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3 weeks ago | 
nation.africa | LILYS NJERU |Florah Koech
Lake Bogoria was once a spectacle. In the 1980s, according to 82-year-old Richard Yegon, the lake was home to thousands of flamingos. “There existed Kesubo swamp along River Waseges that drained its water into the lake. It was evergreen and served as a grazing field for dozens of villages adjacent to it. But locals converted it to farmland, reducing the number of flamingos,” he explains. When the residents gather, they also talk about something else that has been happening.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
