National authorities have vowed to hold accountable those responsible for orchestrating violent protests which left five dead in Angata Barikoi, Narok County, earlier yesterday.
According to eyewitnesses, tensions erupted and escalated as police moved to disperse the crowd of community members who had gathered to protest what they described as the illegal allocation of communal land to private developers.
Videos and images circulating online showed chaotic scenes, with gunshots ringing out as protesters, including women, fled from advancing officers.
Five individuals, including a teenage boy, were killed, and several others were injured, local health officials confirmed.
“Calm has been restored, but we will ensure those who incited the violence are brought to justice. We will not stop at anything, and it will not matter what position one is holding,” the Cabinet Secretary for the Interior and National Administration, Kipchumba Murkomen, has now warned.
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The CS, speaking while in Kerio Valley during a security meeting, believes government officers were going to carry out a land survey in the area when they were attacked innocently.
“It is absolutely unjustifiable. I want to say land is becoming a source of conflict, but there are proper ways of resolving the issues. If aggrieved, go to court, and if you lose, you can appeal,” he said.
Murkomen reiterated the government’s commitment to resolving the dispute through legal and consultative means, with investigations already underway.
Even so, the incident has sparked outrage and renewed allegations of excessive force by Kenyan security forces.
It came just a day after a damning BBC exposé revealing just how the police, in collaboration with the military, shot to kill Gen Zs during the bloody Finance Bill protests last year.
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