- The raid happened on Saturday, February 10 morning at the the Chepkum chief’s camp, police said.
- Sergeant Anthony Mwangi was shot in the head as he walked to an outside latrine at about 4 am, police said.
A police officer was shot and killed in a raid on a camp in Chesuman, Elgeyo Marakwet.
The raid happened on Saturday, February 10 morning at the the Chepkum chief’s camp, police said.
Sergeant Anthony Mwangi was shot in the head as he walked to an outside latrine at about 4 am, police said.
His two other colleagues who were at the camp escaped unhurt.
Police said an unknown number of gunmen had raided the camp for a revenge mission.
Police said the gang was revenging the killing of a wanted suspected bandit identified as Oliver Kimutai alias Mutee.
More security teams were sent to the area to pursue the gang amid concerns the situation was becoming uncontrollable.
More than 20 people have been killed in separate attacks in the region in the past months amid calls to address the menace of banditry.
This comes amid sustained operations by the multi-agency teams against the incidents.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has been leading the operations in the area vowing to end the menace.
Kindiki said cattle rustling in Northern Kenya has over the years become an organised criminal enterprise responsible for deaths, poverty and displacement.
“Its impacts are severe. It deprives pastoral communities of their economic mainstay and aggravates the conditions of poverty in the rangelands, fuelling communal grievances and revenge attacks,” he said.
To dismantle the infrastructure of cattle rustlers and facilitators he said, the government is sustaining the war on banditry and its perpetrators, enablers, benefactors and beneficiaries by making banditry a painful venture, ensuring recovery of stolen livestock and rewarding facilitators of recoveries.