Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki shed some light on Wednesday on his ministry’s progress in combating banditry in the troubled North Rift region.
The CS told the Senate Committee on National Cohesion in the Baringo County Hall Mini Chambers how insecurity had paralysed learning activities in the area.
According to Kindiki, one bandit even moved into one of the schools that had been closed after the terror attack and made it his home.
“One of the schools was taken over by bandits and the classrooms became the home of the bandits. Class Eight, became the bedroom of the head of the family, Class Seven became the bedroom of the first wife, Class Six became the bedroom of the second wife and Class Five became the bedroom of the firstborn,” he told the committee.
“There is no greater level of impunity and lawlessness. The president has directed and we have taken the directive that even the remaining schools must be reopened.”
Kindiki also said the government has already reopened 14 of the 21 schools in the disturbed regions, while the remaining ones have had their infrastructure destroyed by bandits.
He said he has secured Ksh 100 million to rebuild all destroyed schools, adding that he will be visiting the areas to carry out the rebuilding project.
“By next term, all schools will be opened…Those schools will never be shut again,” Kindiki told the committee.
Several schools in the county had closed down in the volatile Baringo North and Baringo South due to insecurity associated with banditry attacks.
