The governor of Uasin Gishu Jackson Mandago has advised the people of Turkana to take their children to school.
Speaking during the Turkana Culture Festival in Lodwar on Friday, the county boss contended that the only way that the community would experience progress is through educating their children.
He said that the time for retrogressive practices such as cattle rustling and banditry was long gone and that such practices should be consigned to the past.
"Let us first educate our children. Let's take our children to school please because the cows that we are fighting over in Suguta, Marmar, here in Katilu and Kapedo, you are running after a cow worth 7 thousand shillings yet there is oil worth billions of shillings beneath ( Kwanza tusomeshe watototo. Tupelekeni watoto wetu shuleni jamani kwa sababu ile ng'ombe tunang'ang'ania Suguta, Marmar, hapa Katilu na Kapedo, wewe unakimbiza ng'ombe ya shillingi elfu saba inakimbilia juu ya mafuta ya mabilioni ya pesa), " the Uasin Gishu County boss said.
Members of the Turkana community lead, by and large, a pastoral life and have been slow to adapt to modernity.
They have been slow to embrace education as a way of improving their lives.
Cattle rustling and banditry are still issues that are being grappled with in the community.