CS Kindiki reviews a list of bandit prone areas, asks residents to vacate.
Interior cabinet secretary, CS Kindiki reviews a list of bandit prone areas, Residents from those areas are to vacate because the places have been declared crime scenes.
The statement read,”The orders issued at Malaso in Samburu County, requiring members of the public to vacate remote and inaccessible, gorges, escarpments, caves, ravines, hills and forests harbouring dangerously armed criminals is hereby reviewed.”
The areas include; Ng’elecha Hills and Gorges, Ramacha and Losokoni Caves, Laramoru Gorges, Karau Hills, Noosidan Escarpment, Rugus Caves and the Amaya Gorges at the interface of Baringo, Laikipia and Samburu Counties.
However, some areas were excluded from the list of vacation. They include;Kapelbok, Nakwamoru, Lobokat, Lokoron, the Turkwell Escarpment and Ombollion areas within Turkana and West Pokot Counties.
The residents of those areas, have been given a 24 hour window to leave the areas as ordered by the government.
The statement read,”Members of the public should vacate these areas within 24 hours commencing today 13th March 2023 7:30 PM.”
“Any member of the public found in the spaces specified in this paragraph after Tuesday 14th March 2023 7:30 PM will be treated as a suspect of armed banditry, or as a suspect of aiding and abetting banditry,” read part of the statement.
However, Turkana South member of parliament has questioned on why the government will take people away from a place they have always known as home.
He stated,”I disagree in totality with the order and do ask the CS to explore additional ways that they can use to protect the livelihoods of Kenyans living in these area.”
“These Kenyans do not have immediate areas of refuge and their properties should be protected instead of ordering them to vacate,” he added.
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