Security officer with residents of Dukana accessing the impact of the clashes that left people dead. Photo: Angaaf Radio.
Residents of Dukana, Marsabit County have been asked to provide vital information regarding the owners of two guns that carried out a massacre in Dukana earlier this week.
According to Dukana Sub-county Deputy Commissioner Peter Kimani, the illegal weapons are still in the hands of civilians, and must be recovered before it causes another harm to the residents.
Speaking during a sit-in that brought together villagers and some security leaders in Marsabit county, DCC Kimani urged elders to ensure that the guns are handed over to security agencies as soon as possible.
” We want those two guns used in the murder, one of the guns used fired four bullets, while other one five bullets. We cannot allow guns used against Wananchi to be in the hands of civilians. We must get them, it is not a matter of begging but demanding that the guns be returned to the police stations or chiefs’ office, because they are illegal guns, not sparing the ones who used the guns,” Kimani boldly said.
In addition, DCC Kimani has called on residents of the area to ensure that livestock stolen during the conflict between two communities living in the area are returned.
“All the stolen animals must be returned, chiefs have done a wonderful job in the recovery of the 145 goats. However, this region has not been responsive, but the goats must be recovered,” he added.
The security chief in Dukana sub-county has also called on communities living in the area to maintain peace and live in unity, as Kenya belongs to all of us and not a particular community, clan or tribe, while warning against those who spread insults.
“According to the penal code, burning down ones house and killing someone are weighed in the same level, because burning someone’s houses means you had the intentions of killing them. I want to call on us to live together as Kenyans, because this country does not belong to any tribe in the country but ours. Stop spreading hate and incitement,” Kimani urged.
His demands coming a day after 18 suspects involved in the clan conflict were arrested and 138 illegal firearms and weapons were recovered, according to Marsabit County Commissioner James Kamau.
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