From: LEO ODERA

The recent reports emerging from Muhoroni Sub-County within Kisumu COUNTY are pointing out the alarmingly deteriorating security along the Nyanza-Rift Valley border. Several people have lost their lives within the last two months as the result o senseless and attacks by criminal elements.

Nyanza regional commissioner Franciis Mutie toured Cgehelil Location last weekend and addressed series of public Barazas and urged the two communities, namely the Luos and Nandis to maintain peace and also warned squatters to desist from the bad habit of invading other people’s lands, occupying them. Mutie did not mince his words and told the squatters that the government will kick them out of the land they were currently occupying illegally.

The first incident was the killing of a night guard at the palatial home of MR Arjit SINGH Singyh [Simba} and his family. They had travelled to Makinndu for religious pilgrimage when the attack took place, forcing the family to rush back home. The night guard was shot at close range with a powerful rifle and died instantly. The unknown assailants later ransacked Mr Singh house turning everything upside down.

So far no arrest has been made by police in connection with the killing of the night guard. Local observers believes that the killing was the result of business rivalry, which is suspected to be connected with the scramble for the Miwani Sugar Mills and its 900 nucleus estate farm. He company was run-down and went burst about 15 years ago.

Muhoroni MP James O nyango K’Oyoo has appealed to the Luos AND Nandis communities to live in harmony.

The MP also termed the action of one community invading the farms which belonging to their neighbors as an act of high provocation, saying that respecting one another property was the best component of maintaining peace and tranquility along the tribal common borders.

The MP’S complaint came in the wake of the killing two weeks ago of a prominent LUO businessman and a farmer who was shot with an arrow at Chepsweta area of Chemelili Location. The deceased, who was accompanied by his sibling, had gone to inspect his sugar cane farm when they were attacked by the Nandi youths. His brother sustained serious bodily injuries and was treated at the Chemelil sugar company dispensary and discharged. YOUTHS FROM THE luo side of the border had grouped to dtsgr rotation, but were restrained and dispersed by the police.

K’Oyoo has since raised the issue in parliament an urged the Nandi leaders to top inciting the youths.

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