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West Pokot residents protest security operation

A section of West Pokot County residents have demonstrated against an operation to flush out bandits in Baringo and Kerio Valley, terming it biased and aimed at eliminating the Pokot community.

The residents took to the streets in Makutano trading centre with placards denouncing the operation. Some of the placards read; “Pokots have a right to be protected by the Government of Kenya. National government should bring us development, not guns.”

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