A member of parliament from the Northeastern region has gifted local elders with motorcycles whose sole purpose is to intensify security patrols in the area.
Launching the exercise on Friday, the Mandera South MP Adan Ali Sheikh handed over a number of branded motor cycles to elders across villages to enable them report and provide real time intelligence on terrorists and their activities.
The latest developments emerges even as the government security agencies intensify security operations to flush out Al-Shabaab insurgents and their sympathisers who are said to be living amongst locals.
It is just a day ago that the KDF servicemen conducting a military operation in parts of Garissa and Mandera were accused of turturing innocent residents in their quest to flush out the militants.
However, human rights groups have kept silent on the matter raising questions on the allegations from locals and a section of their politicians.
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