Man killed, four houses torched in fresh community conflict over ADC farm in Naivasha
Young men converse at Ndabibi, Kosovo in Naivasha on March 5, 2016 after police barred a family from burying a herder killed in a land ownership tussle. A man was on October 10, 2016 hacked to death following renewed conflicts in the area. FILE PHOTO | SULEIMAN MBATIAH | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- The farmer’s mutilated body was found Tuesday morning by security officers sent to the area to pursue the killers.
- Trouble started Monday evening when a group of farmers embarked on a mission to harvest maize.
- The farmers were confronted by armed pastoralists.
- The conflict follows a protracted dispute pitting communities settled in the Agriculture Development Corporation (ADC) farm.
A farmer was Monday night hacked to death and four houses torched in a fresh flare up of conflict pitting communities residing in the troubled Kosovo in Ndabibi, Naivasha.
The latest killing brings to six the number of people killed in the area over the past ten months following a protracted dispute pitting communities settled in the Agriculture Development Corporation (ADC) farm.
Since February, bloody skirmishes and retaliatory attacks have been witnessed, with the first killing happening in February after a 40-year-old herder was speared to death.
A month later, a 25-year-old man was shot with arrows and killed after he was accused of torching houses belonging to a rival community.
On April 23, 2016, a farmer was shot dead by a gunman on motorcycle, fuelling tension that has become a thorn in the flesh for the government.
In the latest incident, trouble started on Monday evening when a group of farmers embarked on a mission to harvest maize in the fields and were confronted by armed pastoralists.
Naivasha Sub-County Assistant Commissioner John Opondo said a confrontation ensued, with the attackers killing the farmer and hiding his body in the vast forest.
“For more than 12-hours we were on a mission to trace the body which was dumped in a secluded place,” said the administrator.
The farmer’s mutilated body was found Tuesday morning by security officers sent to the area to pursue the killers.
