Two killed in land clashes as tensions escalate in Kimwani Nandi county

Tension remains high in Kimwani along the Tinderet-Chemelil border after police shot dead two men amid violent clashes over a long-standing land dispute between locals and private landowners. Rapid deployment unit officers were forced to fire live rounds to disperse hundreds of youth who invaded the contested land, claiming it was illegally acquired during the late President Daniel Moi’s era and later handed to senior military officers