Isiolo: KWS officer shot dead, another injured after bandits attack station
A Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officer was on Saturday shot dead while another was left injured after armed bandits attacked the Oldonyiro KWS field station in Isiolo county. While confirming the incident, Isiolo County Commissioner Geoffrey Omonding said the perpetrators who ambushed the officers as they were preparing dinner are believed to have come from […]
West Pokot: Police thwart banditry attack
Police in West Pokot county on Monday confirmed that security operatives thwarted what could have been a bloody banditry attack in the Chesogon area. According to a police report, the officers had escorted local Pokot farmers to harvest mangoes on their farms. Everything turned out well until armed bandits attacked the farmers disrupting the exercise. […]
Turkana: Suspected Pokot bandits spray passenger vehicle with bullets, leave driver, passenger badly injured
Suspected Pokot bandits on Thursday, March 17, sprayed bullets to a Public Service Vehicle (PSV) in Turkana County leaving the driver and one foreigner badly injured. In a police report seen by K24 Digital, the driver identified as Charles Chegem spotted three bandits who flagged him down but he defied and opted to speed off. […]
We are going to apply new level of force and fire to wipe out Pokot Warriors – CS Matiang’i
Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government Fred Matiang’I now claims the attacks going on in Kerio Valley is not a matter of cattle rustling but activities being carried out by outlawed organizations. Matiang’i has said that as a result, the government is now going to use force and fire to end the […]
CS Matiang’i says school whose students were attacked by bandits in Kerio Valley was in violation of govt policies
Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government Fred Matiang’i has responded about the attack that took place in the banditry prone Kerio Valley after three buses carrying students were ambushed by armed criminals, and a driver shot dead on Thursday evening. While singling out Tot Day Secondary School, Matiang’i says the attack was […]
Kerio Valley: Bandits open fire on buses carrying school students, driver shot dead
One person has been shot dead in the banditry prone Kerio Valley after three buses carrying students were ambushed by armed criminals. The buses which were carrying students of Tot Day Secondary School, Kerio Valley Secondary School and Mogil Secondary School were attacked by gun welding bandits at Chesuman near Arror in Elgeyo-Marakwet County. One […]
Elgeyo Marakwet: Traumatized students forced to take cover under dining tables as suspected cattle rustlers launch attack near their school
Learning at St. Benedict Arror Secondary School in Elgeyo Marakwet was disrupted this afternoon after gunshots were fired some meters from the compound just as students were taking their lunch. According to the school principal, Lucy Okumu, who recorded the incident, gunshots were heard about 200m from the school compound. The gunfire prompted the students […]