The government has announced plans to recruit an additional 460 National Police Reservists to help beef up security in the clash-torn areas of Turkana County.
After meeting the country's county security chiefs, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki announced that 5,600 stolen livestock had been recovered in the last month but regretted that 1,000 stolen livestock are still at large.
He stated that additional NPRs will supplement security officers on the front line to pursue bandits. He urged the Turkana County Security Teams to bolster efforts to recover the livestock fully.
“Occasional attacks in the areas contiguous to the Turkana-West Pokot border and at a few points near Kenya’s border with Uganda and South Sudan remains an outstanding assignment which the Government aims at addressing,” he stated.
Further, he said that recently commissioned modern equipment and weapons have been deployed to the hotspots of banditry, terrorism, and other armed crimes.
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Additionally, he has appealed to political leaders to rally their constituents to abandon acts of crime like livestock rustling and coexist peacefully.
