A cross section of Gusii region leaders has termed the dispute over Keroka town ownership as a threat to the security and unity of the local community.
The leaders attributed the cause of the friction between Kisii and Nyamira counties over the town to revenue and politics.
Their sentiments followed regular confrontations between revenue collectors and residents of the town hailing from the two counties of the Abagusii community.
Kisii county assembly members stormed Kisii central police station protesting over the arrest of revenue officers from either side of the town leading to their release on bond pending appearance in court.
They said there was a discrimination in the arrests made and demanded that the local OCS be transferred.
The suspects were allegedly nabbed for collecting revenue from sections of the town other than their own.
Nyaribari Masaba MP Elijah Moindi decried thrashing of an agreement reached between the two counties under a task force that they collect revenue within their boundaries of the town.
Admitting that the dispute had attracted thuggery, Moindi urged Governors James Ongwae and John Nyagarama to respect the accord and to sensitise their people on the agreement to curb the current standoff.
The chairman Abagusii Culture and Development Council(ACDC) James Araka also blamed some unnamed politicians for funding the dispute saying the elders should resolve it.
Former foreign affairs assistant minister Hezron Manduku also condemned an incident where some residents set on each other with crude weapons injuring each other seriously.