One killed, eight injured after fighting erupts again along Kisii-Narok border
A woman walks out of her burnt house near Olmelil Township in Trans Mara West, Narok County in May 2016 following fighting between the Kipsigis and the Kisii communities. One person has died while eight others have been injured in morning clashes between the Kisii and Kipsigis communities at Olmelil along the Narok-Kisii border. PHOTO | BENSON MOMANYI | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- Hundreds of warriors armed with bows and arrows are in the battle field fighting each other.
- On Friday members of the Kipsigis community decried police brutality in quelling the violence.
- They alleged that they had been beaten by General Service Unit officers from the Njipship GSU camp.
- Emurua Dikirr MP Johanna Ng’eno has been summoned by the DCI, Kilgoris over the clashes.
One person has died while eight others have been injured in morning clashes between the Kisii and Kipsigis communities at Olmelil along the Narok-Kisii border on Sunday.
A Kenya Certificate of Secondary School Education is among the injured.
The eight sustained arrow injuries and were rushed to various hospitals in Kisii County.
The fighting erupted after Kipsigis raiders stole three cows from their Kisii neighbours on Saturday night.
Ikorongo location Chief Francis Omide Sunday said fighting had stopped but tension remains very high.
“I have never seen such a big group of warriors.”
“Dozens of security officers are on the ground,” he said.
Gunshots rent the air as security officers tried to battle the warring youths.
MP SUMMONED
The fighting comes a day before Emurua Dikirr MP Johanna Ng’eno reports to the Kilgoris Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) offices after he was summoned over the Olmelil skirmishes.
The MP on Friday said he had been summoned to the DCI offices in Kilgoris to shed light on his possible incitement in regard to the the Olmelil clashes.
“I will go there and hear what they have to say. But I know I have been in the frontline trying to mediate [between] the two communities,” he said.
He, however, said some top Jubilee leaders have been trying to link him with the skirmishes due to political differences.
On Friday members of the Kipsigis community decried police brutality in quelling the violence.
They alleged that they had been beaten by General Service Unit officers from the Njipship GSU camp.
“They got me in my M-Pesa shop and beat me badly. They took away my Sh15,000 from the shop,” said Mr Shadrack Tonui, who is recuperating at Njipship Health Centre where he was rushed for treatment.
