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8 Killed As Border Fighting Escalates
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- Published on Saturday, 07 July 2007 07:30
The attack in the wee hours of Friday morning took place at the [...] sub-location in Gucha District. Nyanza Provincial Commissioner Wilson Chepkwony and Gucha District Commissioner Peter Alubale visited the scene of the attack and urged the Kisiis not to retaliate. So far, 11 people have died in the three months the skirmishes have been going on.
The two administrators that the Government would track down and charge the murderers. The dead relatives were identified as Henry Gwachi, David Mokua, Aunga Mokua Omwange, Ondara Onuonga and their step- father, Mr Orembe Nyaikondo. The names of the other two who were reportedly killed at Geteri area on the eastern side of the border could not be immediately established.
A Form Two student at Nyangusu Secondary School identified as Ongori Ondara who was shot with an arrow on Wednesday and admitted at the Kisii General Hospital was also reported dead.
The two injured brothers were identified as Elijah Nyauma and Benson Nyauma. They were admitted at the Hema Hospital. Mr Chepkwony and members of the Nyanza provincial security team had arrived at Nyangusu town to attend a security meeting where he heard the news of the killings.
Mr Chepkwony and his Rift Valley counterpart, Mr Yusuf Haji, later addressed a wananchi who attended the joint security meeting at Nyangusu Primary school. The PCs said the attacks would no longer be tolerated.
Some of the resolutions reached to curb the clashes include: Police officers stationed along the border have been empowered to shoot to kil. anyone who involves himself in clashes.Chiefs and their assistants along the border should by Monday hand over to police suspects involved in the killing of a student at Nyangusu market a fortnight ago and also those who took part in the Nyabitunwa murders. Chiefs and their assistants will be arrested and maybe sacked if clashes are confirmed to have started from their areas of jurisdiction.
Tracking of stolen livestock should be done by chiefs and border security members only and not the affected community. Members of parliament and civic leaders from both districts should warn their electorate against retaliation in case of any illegal activities along the border. District officers from both districts should hold regular security meetings.
Carrying of arrows and spears along the boundary was immediately banned. Villagers who fled them homes during the recent skirmishes along the migori-kuria border were on Thursday afternoon urged to return by their respective District commissioners.Addressing a reconciliation meeting at Nyarobiro market along their common border, the two administrators, Mr Peter Raburu (Siaya) and Mr John Egesa (Kuria) assured the clash victims that the security situation had been normalised.
During the three hour meeting, chaired by the two DCs, elders from both sides pledged to bury the hatchet and live harmoniously with their neighbors.
The clashes which started a month ago, claimed two lives and property worth thousands of shillings were destroyed arsonists and looters. The administrators identified cattle rustling as the root cause of the flare-up and the subsequent tension among the two communities and resolved that chiefs and elders from the two sides hold regular meetings to review any rustling incidents that may recur.
In what they described as "Nyarobiro Declaration,' the meeting agreed that the residents of the two sides respect their common boundaries and I case of any violators legal action be taken by the police immediately.The security forces were also ordered to arrest anyone found trespassing on the boundary, and f those found carrying offensive weapons would not be sparred either.
A man was killed on Thursday and a woman is reportedly missing after villagers fought over land disputed by the residents of Nyakach [...] The man identified as Michael Juma Nyakwaka, a farm-help, from Wasare sub-location, Ran'gul location in Nyakach was said to have been attacked by assailants from Kano with pangas. He died on the way to Pap Onditi Health Centre.
