The National Transport Safety Authority chairman Lee Kinyanjui has urged the government to tighten security at Ngongongeri farm to quell the ongoing clashes over land dispute.
Kinyanjui called on local leaders from the warring communities to move with speed and hold public barazas to avoid further lose of life, destruction of property and displacement of innocent people.
Kinyanjui called on Nakuru Governor Kinuthia Mbugua and his deputy Joseph Rutto to facilitate peace meetings to end the conflict.
The Ogiek and Tugen communities are embroiled in a tussle over the expansive 26,000 acres of Ngongongeri farm that borders Molo and Njoro sub- counties.
The former Nakuru town legislator who is eyeing the county governorship post in next year's elections, said the spark of ethnic clashes in Nakuru County has been motivated by land related conflicts since the first multiparty elections, urging leaders to come together and help resolve the standoff.
"A county that has known peace for the last three years since election, is now the top of news due to insecurity. Why are we fighting one another? While we urge the government to act, we must as leaders be ready to tell our people to stop what they are doing against their neighbors," Kinyanjui said.
Addressing residents at Keringet Catholic Church, Kinyanjui who was accompanied by Nakuru county deputy governor Joseph Rutto, nominated Senator Liza Chelule, Commissioner Lawrence Bomett, and former Kuresoi MP James Koskey maintained that peace must prevail before and after 2017 general election.