The government has announced fresh measures to end decades of conflict along the border of Kitui and Tana River counties, where repeated clashes between farmers and camel herders have left several people dead and many displaced over the years.
While launching the new Nuu sub-county in Mwingi central, Kitui county, interior cabinet secretary kipchumba murkomen said the national government will immediately deploy police officers to eight police stations built by the Kitui county government but which have remained without personnel.
Murkomen said that the move is aimed at boosting security in some of the region’s most volatile areas and preventing further attacks. A 30-year old man killed was killed in Tseikuru, by herders last week on Monday as he tried to stop camels from invading his farm, while a 13 year old boy was killed yesterday in Yumba
