Police officers exchange bullets with bandits for food
Trans Nzoia County Governor Natembeya George has highlighted challenges faced by police officers especially those deployed to deal with bandits.
Natembeya George revealed that the officers are forced to enter into ‘illegal alliance’ whereby they give bullets to the bandits for them to be given food.
George Natembeya who is the former Rift Valley Regional Commissioner said the police officers are getting the same monthly payments as their counterparts in other regions.
Natembeya was speaking during a thanks giving prayer service in Nakuru where he urged the President Dr. Ruto to look into the perennial insecurity issues in the region.
Natembeya said for the 3 years he served as the Rift Valley Regional Commissioner for no single penny was allocated to deal with banditry. The police officers deployed to deal with the bandits were not given any allowances or incentives.
Natambeya further narrated how insiders sabotage the operations despite the deployment of military in the region.
According to him, what happened at the Laikipia conservancy made him to resolve to leave his job because he would instruct the officers on the coordinates and location of the bandits but some would decide to bomb the other side.
This was majorly because the owners of the livestock are the same individuals who would sit in meetings to plan how banditry would be put to an end.
On matters banditry, three hundred bandits attacked police officers who were on the surveillance along the Kitale-Lodwar highway in Turkana killing 3 officers and injuring several others.
During the Thanksgiving service in Nakuru, President Ruto said he has instructed Kithure Kindiki (Interior CS) to camp in bandit prone areas to deal with the bandits mercilessly adding that no stone shall be left unturned until the region is free from bandit attacks.
