(i) Could the Cabinet Secretary provide details on the circumstances surrounding an incid…

Question

The Member for Laisamis (Hon. Joseph Lekuton, MP) to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration: - (i) Could the Cabinet Secretary provide details on the circumstances surrounding an incident that occurred on April 2nd 2022, where two chiefs and four (4) other residents were killed by bandits in Moto Gelaa area in Logologo Location and two land cruisers belonging to the residents burnt while in the process of recovering livestock that had been raided by bandits from the neighbouring constituency? (ii) What steps has the Government taken to ensure that the culprits of the heinous act are apprehended and that the vehicle which is believed to have ferried the bandits to the crime scene is detained? (iii) What measures, if any, the Ministry has put in place to compensate the families of the two fallen Chiefs who were killed in the line of duty? Could the Cabinet Secretary explain the measures that the Government is putting in place to avert such incidents from recurring, considering that residents of Logologo location can no longer defend themselves from banditry after the Kenya Police Reservists in the area were disarmed and withdrawn?