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Four Injured in Border Fight
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- Published on Sunday, 22 July 2007 23:37
They were taken to Tabaka and St Joseph's Mission hospitals with arrow heads lodged in their chests. Some 15 houses were burnt during the Saturday fight.
The Kisiis are said to have been retaliating after Maasais burnt their houses and destroyed their crops at Nyabitunwa and Nyamecheo.
The Kisiis pursued the Maasais into Transmara and burned several houses and granaries.
The clashes came barely 48 hours after high-ranking government officials, among them two Cabinet Ministers from the two communities, held a reconciliatory meeting.
At the Kiango, Nyabitunwa and Nyangoso areas, Maasais abandoned their houses fearing attacks.
Father Vincent Simba of Nyangoso Parish urged the government to end the violence.
"If the government fails to protect the lives of its citizens, then it has no business being in power," he said, and attributed the clashes to cultural attitudes, cattle rustling and land issues.
Speaking at Kiango, Bomachoge/Borabu civic leader Andrew Mokua urged security forces patrolling the border not to take sides in the violence.
Gucha police said officers were on the alert around the border area. Five Land Rovers ferried regular and administration police to the area.
On Friday, Nyanza and the Rift Valley Provincial Commissioners accompanied Cabinet Ministers Julius Sunkuli and Prof Sam Ongeri to address a peace meeting at Ramasa.
Meanwhile, the communities living around the Nyando/Kericho borders were yesterday urged to defuse the tension triggered by the 1990 tribal clashes and live in harmony.
A Kanu activist, Mr James Onyango K'oyoo, expressed regret that Tamu Location in Nyando District had lagged behind in development due to hostility among the local communities.
Primary schools lacked physical facilities, resulting in low enrolment, while St Augustine Mixed, the only secondary school in the area, had collapsed twice in 1987 and 1994 due to mismanagement.
