A section of bandits who have been terrorizing residents of Tiaty in Baringo and Kerio Valley in Elgeyo Marakwet has apologized for causing suffering to the residents.
While surrendering firearms to police, the group of 15 bandits vowed to work with security agencies in trying to get more bandits in the push to reform.
"We decided to reform and embrace change because we want peace in our community," one of the reformed bandits said on Sunday, November 28.
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The reformed bandits said they had accepted to embrace agricultural activities as an alternative occupation. They called on the government to support them and use them to convince the few remaining bandits who were yet to surrender to the authorities.
"They should use us to get to our colleagues who are still held up in the forest so that we can tell them to join us in preaching peace. We have discovered farming is a good thing," another reformed bandit said.
In the process, six firearms that were stolen from police officers who were killed in Turkana on September 2022 were recovered.
