Swenani wrote:Haiya!The nearest administration police camp has 5 officers
This is what I was told by a civil servant in Mandera this week: towards dawn on Tuesday last week, there was an incursion of Ethiopian soldiers/police allegedly in pursuit of OLF fighters. They came in and harassed the locals for several hours accusing local residents of harboring OLF and chiefs of giving them relief food, then left after harassing them for several hours.
Kenya's security apparatus (police and KDF) made an appearance long after the Ethiopians had left in their usual cavalier attitude. Kenya Police recorded statements from villagers then left. Later on that evening, KDF came in and instead of patrolling walianza kuchinja mbuzi claiming that the community is spreading propaganda. On Thursday evening, tension was very high as KDF had left and locals claimed to have spotted Ethiopian army crossing the border into Kenya that very day.
On Friday, the young men chased away all the Ethiopian herders along with their animals using canes and nyahunyos. The situation would have been uglier had one of the Kenyan vijana's leaders not intervened to stop the young men from shooting dead th Ethiopians and instead proposed that they be caned.
As of Thursday evening, the Kenya Police's and CID's way of handling it was to claim that this was mere propaganda.
That's all I know as of now.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.