- The incident came hours after another group of gunmen killed a 58-year-old in an attack at a village in Turkana County.
- The body Peter Lokuruka Ekai, 58 was found on the roadside moments after he had been shot in the head on Wednesday January 31, police said.
Gunmen attacked and killed two people including a member of the National Police Reservist (NPR) in a village in Kaputir, Turkana County.
The incident happened on Wednesday morning as the police reservist was escorting some locals to a watering point at Nakwamoru.
A civilian aged 35 was also killed. The gunmen stole the rifle of the NPR- a G3 rifle- with 20 bullets.
Police arrived at the scene minutes later and collected the bodies to the mortuary.
The incident came hours after another group of gunmen killed a 58-year-old in an attack at a village in Turkana County.
The body of Peter Lokuruka Ekai, 58 was found on the roadside moments after he had been shot in the head on Wednesday, January 31.
On Thursday, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki held a strategy meeting with Senior Security managers at Shaba, Isiolo County.
The aim was to lay the framework for the pacification of disturbed areas in Marsabit, Isiolo, Meru North, Baringo, Samburu and Turkana Counties.
He said incessant security threats posed by livestock rustlers, highway robbers, and traffickers of humans and narcotics require a comprehensive multi-agency eradication strategy.
“The criminals have taken advantage of rough terrain, poor infrastructure, and social vulnerabilities to stage attacks against residents of some parts of Northern Rift Valley and Upper Eastern Regions, a culture that the government is determined to suppress this year,” he said.
Despite a heavy police presence in the marked areas, armed bandits have continued to attack, kill and rob residents before retreating to caves and forests from where they monitor the public and security personnel as they plan further attacks.
Kindiki said politics, ethnicity, culture, religion or other affiliations must be separated from the fight against the criminal atrocities perpetrated against the people of Kenya through the terror of bandits.
“The government is determined to permanently destroy the intricate infrastructure of banditry by going for its benefactors, beneficiaries, accessories, planners and executors,” he said.