Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo. Photo/FILE NATION MEDIA GROUP
By DANIEL NYASSY dnyassy@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Wednesday, December 26 2012 at 18:01
Posted Wednesday, December 26 2012 at 18:01
The Government has given residents of Tana River County seven days to surrender nine guns and 580 bullets taken from murdered police officers on September 10 at Kilelengwani Village.
Failure to this, police will move in for a forceful disarmament, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mr David Kimaiyo warned on Wednesday.
Addressing a public rally at Garsen Primary School grounds on Wednesday, the newly appointed IGP said the government had been lenient to the residents but “our patience has now completely run out”.
He said the government will move in with all the necessary force to recover the guns and arrest perpetrators of violence that has claimed more than 150 people since August.
“Tumekuwa tukiwabembeleza sana lakini sasa uvumilivu wa serikali umeisha na kufika mwisho. Sasa tunakuja kuchukua silaha hizo msipozitoa” (We have been patience with you but now our patience has run out. We are now coming to get those weapons if you don’t surrender them)”, he said.
Addressing the same gathering, Internal Security Minister Mr Katoo ole Metito said the government would increase the hours of the dawn to dusk curfew. The curfew will begin from 5pm to 7am unless the residents immediately gave up the guns, he said.
He warned local politicians that they were being thoroughly investigated and they risked missing from the ballot if they will be linked to the bloody violence that has rocked the Tana Delta District for five months now.
“My total conviction is that the violence is being fanned by politicians and politics. Be warned that you are being investigated and in the event that you are found to be involved in inciting or any other way, you risk being barred from contesting for any position”, he said.
He said it was suspicious that only two days after the completion of the voter registration exercise, the fresh flare up of the violence took part at the Orma populous Kipao village.
Area MP Mr Danson Mungatana and his Galole counterpart Major (Rtd) Dhadho Godhana were conspicuously missing from the public rally. Only Bura MP Dr Abdi Noor was present.
The leaders had earlier toured the clash-torn Kipao village where 42 people were massacred last Friday and addressed the villagers. Mr Mungatana had been barred from accompanying the team as his presence there would fan violence.
Assistant Minister Mr Alfred Kang’ati also warned his fellow politicians that the Constitution denied any inciter or perpetrator of violence.
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