Following ongoing rivalry between the camel herders and locals of Mutha ward,Kitui South Kitui county commissioner together with area MP, her counter part from Kitui East and area MCA have started an operation of flushing out camel herders in the area.
This comes few days after a local from the area was hacked to death by bandits.
Kitui County Commissioner Erastus Mbui has confirmed that an operation to flush out camel herders in Kitui South is ongoing.
The county security boss has it illegal for the herders to have invaded local farms, an act that has led to conflict and lives have been lost.
He also affirmed that police officers lead in driving the camels away from Kitui county.
Area MP Rachael Kaki Nyamai said in the last month; two have been killed by bandits making the total of those killed in Mutha ward 48 up to date.
She said it is enough proof that there’s insecurity.
Kaki said the herders have killed locals and only evicting them as the government did by destroying their camp at Inyali in 2019 would save the locals.
She pointed out that herders have posed insecurity threats to locals for the last six months.
The legislator said apart from forcefully grazing in local farms, they also rape women and girls.
Kaki also added that they torched his house to displace them in the homestead where a man was murdered in cold blood.
The third term MP emphasized that how they are killing locals is so brutal and resembles that of an Alshabab.
Her counterpart from Kitui East, whom they have since joined hands to flush out the camel herders, Nimrod Mbai, urged the camel owners led by Aden Duale to drive away their animals from the area.
Duale, the Defence CS nominee during vetting, said he has over 200 camels in Kitui county.
Following his utterances, Mbai has called on the herders led by Duale to flush out camels where the herders have turned brutal.
He called on the Kenya Kwanza government to deploy more security personnel to help in the ongoing operation failure, threatening to take the law into his own hands.
Area MCA, Dominic Mwamisi, called on the security agencies to ensure suspects who recently murdered a local on Saturday are brought to book.
He also questioned the security agencies why the herders have guns, yet the locals are not armed.
The county legislator said locals are preparing their farms for the rainy season, but with the camel invasion, this is impossible as a good number have moved to the bushes, away from their homes, in fear of attacks.