CS Kithure Kindiki launches Kosile GSU camp to curb cattle rustling in Baringo.

Cabinet Secretary for Interior & National Administration, Kenya. Kithure Kindiki has today launched a General Service Unit camp in Saimo Soi ward, Baringo North.

 This is a important step to contain banditry attacks staged by livestock robbers in Namba, Ng'aratuko, Kagir, Yatya and Kosile areas.

CS Kithure Kindiki helps mount a flag in a newly launched  GSU camp in Baringo. Photo Courtesy. 

Nevertheless, the Cabinet Secretary has deployed the formed-up units in the area, including the General Service Unit (GSU), the Anti-Stock Theft Unit (ASTU), and the Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU) for a serious peace mission in Baringo North and Baringo South.

 In February this year, 229 animals that were allegedly stolen by robbers from the Barchar area of the Loruk Sub-location were found by the police three days later. 

A joint patrol team of National police service officers, comprising members of the rapid deployment unit in Ng’aratuko, Loruk regular duty officers, and National police reservists, promptly arrived at the area after the incident.

Interior CS Kithure Kindiki signing a book at the newly launched GSU cam in Baringo. Photo courtesy.

 They team returned the animals to their respective owners. There was a heavy gunfight between the suspects and the authorities during the operation

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Residents claimed to have heard gunfire for about three hours during the bandits' altercation with reservists from the national police. The robbers apparently overran the reservists and moved the cattle they had taken towards the Ngelecha valley. 

This incident occurs just one week after the president gave the regional commissioner the order to reopen schools and let displaced citizens to return to their homes.

Security officers welcome interior  CS Kithure Kithure Kindiki in Baringo during the launch of a GSU CAMP. Photo Curtesy.

Locals are furious over the attack and have chastised the cabinet secretary for interior for not going to the impacted area, pleading with the president to move decisively in order to provide those who had just returned home a sense of security and hope.

This attack came after an earlier incident in the Kerio valley that resulted in the shooting dead of two children and the theft of over seventy cows.

In reaction to this occurrence, the interior cabinet secretary went to the area and gave the order to equip five police officers and deploy 450 NPR officers and chiefs.