Kenya, Tanzania to cooperate on tackling banditry

By KIPCHUMBA KEMEI

KENYA: Kenya and Tanzania security teams will cooperate to tackle runaway banditry along the border.

The agreement reached yesterday during a joint security meeting also includes intelligence sharing and a mop up of small arms, which marauding bandits use to rob and kill people in settlements along the common border.

In the last two months more than seven people have been robbed and killed by bandits suspected to be Tanzanians. Because of the recurrent incursions, several families living along the border have left their homes.

Two weeks ago, two brothers who were cattle traders and a Lands ministry official were killed in Naikara area. Angry residents pursued the bandits, killed three of them and recovered an AK 47 rifle loaded with 24 rounds of ammunition.

Narok County Commissioner Kassim Farah and Ngorongoro DC Elias Laali resolved that cultivation along the border by a Tanzanian tribe, the Sonjo, who practice farming should stop as a long-term measure to deter banditry.

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Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga said after he attended the burial of the two brothers that the Jubilee government should prioritise provision of security to all Kenyans.