Njoro deputy commissioner Peter Kinyanjui now wants more police officers deployed to the troubled Njoro-Molo border to maintain law and order.
Speaking at the embattled Ngongongeri farm on Sunday evening following reports that there was a planned retaliatory attack on Sunday night, Kinyanjui said the situation was slowly getting out of hand and that reinforcement was the best solution even as they await an audit by the National Land Commission.
"Our available officers cannot withstand these morans especially because the attacks are facilitated late in the night or early in the morning. If they get reinforcement, I believe the situation can be contained," he said.
The deputy commissioner now wants the county commissioner through the office of the county commander to reconsider sending a team of officers to the ground to help avert further attacks.
Kipsigis and Ogiek morans are wrangling over the ownership of a piece of grazing land at the border of the two sub-counties.
More than 10 houses were torched in the area last week with another two reduced to ashes on Saturday despite a major crisis security meeting last week on Wednesday led by Kinyanjui and his Molo counterpart, Judith Cheruiyot.