Tension is still remaining high along the Kisii- Narok border following the ongoing clashes between the Kisii and maasai community living along the border.
According to Transmara deputy commissioner Abdi Jubak so far one person has been shot dead by police following inter community clashes along the Kisii-Narok border. According to the police, 35 year-old Isaiah Okari was among a group of youth who attacked police officers on patrol after them allegedly setting a sugarcane plantation on fire.
Abdi Jubak has called upon residents to calm down so that the talks between the two communities can be started and end the fighting which has brought business and school into a stand still.
According to Jubat Leaders from Transmara West and Kenyenya sub-counties resolved that the owner of the cow would receive Sh60,000 in compensation.
Jubat was speaking after leaders from both communities met over solving border disputes at St Joseph Pastoral Centre in Kilgoris town.
In the same event Kenyenya Acting sub-county Commissioner Grace Okoth said, “Police patrols have been intensified at all Narok-Kisii borders to curb any resultant criminal activities.”
Commissioner Okoth who urged the two communities to resolve the conflict in a peaceful manner to end the clashes and clear fear and tension among them added that all those who will be found inciting others to fight will be arrested and arraigned in court immediately.
Earlier on some journalists, Dismus Nabiswa (Citizen TV), Bernard Ojwang (NTV) and Dan Meja (KNA), were accused by some members of one of the community involved in the conflict of bias in their reporting on the ongoing conflict between Gusii and Maasai communities over cattle theft and narrowly escaped