If you fuel border animosity and engage in grabbing land and property from innocent people, whether politicians or whoever, your days are numbered, says Interior CS Prof Kithure Kindiki. Kindiki said he can’t champion peaceful coexistence and fight bandits in other regions within Kenya but some individuals are pulling him down in his own Mt Kenya East region for their own political gains. Two people were killed in cold blood at Kaurone in Imenti South subcounty on the border with Tharaka Nithi county in March 2022. In 2017, seven people were killed and about 700 0thers displaced after clashes between the Meru tribe and their neighbours, the Borana from Isiolo county. In 2018, two cars one belonging to an advocate and his follower were burnt down at Kathangachwe near Gatithini on the border of Meru and Tharaka Nithi counties over an alleged land dispute.

Source: The Star May 09, 2023 00:29 UTC