[Garissa Governor Nathif Jama (R) and a section of the leaders from Garissa County. twitter.com
Teachers who fled Garissa County following repeated terror attacks in North Eastern should return to the region, Garissa Governor Nathif Jama has said.
Jama said peace has been restored in the volatile arid and semi-arid zone assuring non-residents of peace.
Teachers, especially of non-Somali origin fled the counties of Wajir, Mandera, Marsabit and Garissa in November 2014 after suspected terrorists attacked a bus ferrying travellers from Mandera to Nairobi.
The people were travelling home for Christmas holidays.
During the incident, 28 people majority of whom were teachers were killed.
Jama was speaking on Saturday at Garissa Farmers Training Centre where he presided over the graduation of 300 Early Childhood Development Education teachers from Garissa District Centres for Early Childhood Education.
He said if reelected, he would build a fully-fledged ECDE college.
Garissa is among counties in the country which have for long withstood terror brunt.
In April 2015, suspected Al-Shabaab militants raided Garissa University College killing 147 students.
The attack caught government by surprise and took close to twelve hours to neutralise the terrorists.
Before the deadly incident, suspected Al-Shabaab militants had detonated explosives in Garissa town hotels, attacks claimed to be directed at non-Somali speaking communities.
In December 2016 in neighbouring Wajir County two people were killed by suspected militants after a group of gunmen attacked a telecommunications mast at Tarbaj.
The attack came less than five months after another group of Al-Shabaab fighters raided a police station in the county.