Leaders have renewed calls for the Terrorism Act to be amended in order to punish bandits who have been killing people in parts of the North Rift for years.
Bandits, according to Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei, are not ordinary criminals, hence necessitating harsh punishment.
“Bandits killing people mercilessly along the North Rift in Kerio-Valley should be treated as terrorists. We are going to amend the terrorism act,” the Senator said during a prayer service in Uasin Gishu County.
Bandits who target livestock kill hundreds of people each year in various parts of the North Rift region, where most communities are armed.
Despite successive governments’ efforts to disarm them, people continue to die in that part of the country.
However, the new administration led by President William Ruto has vowed to put an end to the scourge, declaring that “cattle rusting must end” and that “there is no excuse for it.”
