Guns, land and votes: How cattle warlords are fuelling violence in the restive north
Armed residents and Kenya police reservists in Mukutani, Baringo County in Kenya’s Rift Valley keep vigil on June 10, 2014 following attacks by Pokot cattle rustlers. PHOTO | CHEBOITE KIGEN
The recent killing of 21 police officers by Kalashnikov-toting bandits in Kenya’s restive north has renewed debate on how to deal with the state of lawlessness in the region.
Last month, a group of heavily armed Pokot bandits in Kapedo, a small village in Turkana County, northern Kenya, ambushed a contingent of new police recruits and sprayed their truck with bullets.
