The government will next week announce new security measures to address banditry and other insecurity incidents in the country.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki stated that the time has come to change operational interventions to seal the remaining gaps and secure the North Rift region.
Kindiki underscored the need to periodically amend strategies and interventions put in place to end the menace.
“A year after the Government deployed a permanent operation to defeat the decades-old organised crime against the people of Kenya, time has come to change the operational interventions to seal the remaining gaps and secure the Kenya of the North,” said Kindiki.
The CS spoke on Tuesday after a meeting with Samburu County Security agency heads and Operation Maliza Uhalifu field commanders of formed up units along the Malaso Valley, at Maralal, Samburu County.
The meeting comes after Samburu MCA Paul Leshimpiro was shot dead by suspected bandits at Soit Pus on Maralal-Baragoi Highway
At least 11 people have been killed by bandits in Baringo North and Baringo South since January.
On Monday two children were killed on there their way home from school in Yatya, Baringo North.
The latest attack has paralysed learning in 10 schools including Yatia Primary, Yatya Secondary School, Rormoch Primary,Kosile Primary, Ng’aratuko Primary, Kibenos Primary, Chepkesin Primary, Kapngetio, Tuluk, and Kagir as pupils and parents flee for safety.
