Written by Henry Kimoli
Police are investigating claims the attackers who killed six people in Mpeketoni area, Lamu County also had a land issue.
Officers who visited the scene said preliminary findings had shown the attack was perpetrated by locals fighting over land issues.
The planners, according to police, wanted stop continued encroachment of their farms by farmers as other people who are mostly considered as nonlocals.
All those who were killed were non locals. One was shot dead while the others were burnt in their houses.
According to police, those hacked to death or targeted were all well known for aggressively agitating for land rights of the farmers and other deserving cases.
Investigations are ongoing.
