By Agwanda Powerman.

A retired police officer was killed and scores injured in Upper Nyakach division in Nyakach district after a night of terror by cattle rustlers.

Mr James Agumba had ventured in to the darkness to check the alarm raised by the barking doors only to land on the raiders who shot him several times with arrows before slashing him.

He died at the Nyabondo hospital where three other people were being treated for arrow wounds.

According to a neighbour, Mr Tom Otieno, the raiders had attempted to steal from several homes and had been repulsed.

He said “Mr Agumba does not keep cows and therefore the only reason he was attacked was because they he stood in the way of the raiders.

And area deputy police boss Mr Wilson Abduba admitted that the police in the area did not have the capacity to wipe out the menace that has made cattle raring an invite to death in the Nyabondo plateau.

He said “We are trying to track down the people but the area is too vast, Our officers did not move fast because they did not have a vehicle at Ogoro police station”.

Mr Abduba said that the raiders had been repulsed from Kajimbo village only to move in to Nyabondo area to rein terror on the residents.

Early in the year, two boys were killed by the raiders as they walked home from a local market in the evening. Although police had said that then they would beef up security, yesterdays events have left the residents in protest.

Residents of the area armed themselves to combat the raiders but the police in the area warned them against taking the law in to their own hands.

The cattle rustling menace has persisted in Nyakach district despite assurances the police that they were in control. Several families interviewed said that they had been forced to dispose of the animals for fear of