Kindiki Orders Residents in These Areas to Vacate Within 24 Hours

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has directed all civilians living in specific banditry-prone areas to vacate within the next 24 hours. 

In a statement on Sunday, March 12, CS Kindiki stated that the areas have been declared crime scenes, and any person who will be found there from Monday, March 13, 2023, would be treated as a bandit.

“The specified spaces are hereby declared scenes of crime and any person found therein from Monday, March 13, 2023, at 0830 hours will be treated as a suspect of armed banditry, or as a suspect of aiding and abetting banditry, or an accessory after the fact. Everyone must get out,” Kindiki said.

The areas are; Korkor hills, Tandare Valley, Silale in Baringo, Mukogodo, Kamwenje Lekuruki, Losos, Kiape Seku Valley, and Laikipia.

Other areas include; Tungai Longewan, Nasur, Lochokia, Lekadar escarpments, Suguta Valley, and Martin to Tungai-Samburu; and Kabelbok Kamur Nadome Turkwel Escarpments in Turkana.

Kindiki also revealed that the government has identified leaders and politicians in charge of the bandit groups noting that they would pursue them in the coming days.

“Intelligence has led us to identify a handful of senior commanders in charge of the bandit network as well as their spiritual leaders, political patrons and the commercial beneficiaries of bandit gangs. We know who they are, where they are and how they are operating,” said Kindiki.

He added," In a short while, we shall be circulating the names and photographs of these dark pillars of the evil network that is banditry." 

Kindiki also stated that one spiritual leader aiding the bandits has been arrested. 

"Already, one of them, a spiritual leader who has been providing prophetic support to the bandits has been apprehended," he revealed.