The Government has marked counties where it will ensure maximum vigilance during and after the August polls to ensure there is no vilonce.
The closes to 20 counties were hotspots during the 2007 post-election violence that rocked the countries, where hundreds were killed with thousands of others displaced.
The counties include Nairobi, Kisumu, Mombasa, Nakuru, Uasin Gishu, Narok, Kisii, Homa Bay, Isiolo, Turkana, Bungoma, Kiambu, Kilifi, Lamu, Migori, Baringo, West Pokot, Elgeyo Marakwet and Meru.
There have been sparks of pre-election chaos in some areas and killings believed to be motivated by resurgence in gang killings associated with election years.
This comes with the government already putting in place to thwart efforts by organized gangs to terrorize Kenyans before the election.
On Thursday 27 suspects armed with crude weapons were arrested by police in Kisumu as they were allegedly planning to disrupt a NASA event.
Then the previous day, seven youth were arrested in Nairobi’s Embakasi area after the killing of a butcher led to chaos between two communities.
Then on Monday, residents of Kibera found five mutilated bodies that had their eyes gouged out stacked in sacks.
According to the National Cohesion and Integration Commission Chairman Francis Ole Kaparo, some of the marked counties are ‘problematic and requires close monitoring’.
Already, officers from the Kenya Prison’s Service and Police have been barred from going on leave up to until the polls.
The Kenya Police Service (KPS) has been allocated Sh1 billion while the Administration Police Service has been allocated Sh432.8 million for “election-related security operations.”