Government To Financially Reward These Kenyans - CS Kindiki

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has announced that the government will reward police officers and members of the public who will aid in the arresting of bandits across the country.

In a statement on Friday, December 29, Kindiki said the government will run the program through the Ministry of Interior.

“Going forward, the Government through the Interior Ministry will run a program to financially reward gallant officers and members of the public whose efforts will result in the arrest of the key planners, executors and enablers of banditry whose profiles will be published countrywide in the new year,” Kindiki stated.

The Interior CS noted that 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 their economic mainstay and aggravates the conditions of poverty in the rangelands, fuelling communal grievances and revenge attacks,” he said.

CS Kindiki mentioned that 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.

The statement comes after CS Kindiki visited Posta, Laikipia County, happy to oversee the handover of heads of cattle that had been stolen, recovered in full, and to reward security officers, local leaders, and youth whose collaborative efforts have realised the recovery.

Kindiki was accompanied by Regional, County and local security heads, officers, area political leaders.