Home guards and Kenya Police Reservists patrol Nakatong'wa Primary School in Turkana East. It was the only school operating after five others were shut down due to rising insecurity in the area. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]For months now, armed security agents in armoured vehicles have been combing parts of Northern Kenya in search of bandits who have made life unbearable. After a detailed study, the Kenya Land Commission of 1933 found that the total land in the Northern Frontier and Turkana Provinces except Pokot (Suk) was 116,959 square miles of which about 120,038 people called home. Kenya continues to bleed whenever civilians and police officers die in the crossfire of bandits even as millions of shillings are sunk into security operations.

Source: Standard Digital June 26, 2023 17:21 UTC