Sorry, for now the govt cannot interfere with the pokots as they are looking for their votes. The mzungu's are too few for their votes to count while the kiuks in Laikipia are already mortgaged to the govt party so they will have to wait till after elections.

The Pokot are not Mungiki. The Mungiki were kawaida people who in their later years decided to engage in Mungiki activities. A Pokot in the plains of Baringo or Laikipia does not know any other way of life. The life of herding his cattle, taking it where there is pasture and water and protecting what he has by any means necessary and raiding neighboring communities to get more is HIS LIFE. That is how they know how live, that is how they live.

If anybody in government makes any decision to deal with the problem, this is what they must deal with. A people's way of life.

In my opinion the most effective way to deal with this would be construct water pans and drill bore holes all over the Pokot territory in West Pokot, Baringo and Laikipia. Taking up arms or engaging KDF would be a grave mistake that would only kick the can down the road.

Since we are all nice modern 21st Century people and we have a capable and modern army with equipment why don't we just kill all of them and get rid of them once and for all? The Pokot do not have newspapers, TV, Radio and internet to cry out to the rest of the world the atrocities that have been committed against their way of life so the only one sided story we have is that they are savages who are mowing down the rest of Kenyans.

Drought comes and goes. Water pans and boreholes will mitigate the effects of future droughts not solve the problems of the current drought.


21st century or not my point is that no indigenous Kenyan is more Kenyan than another and for far too long sedentary Kenyans have had nothing but contempt for the pastoralist Kenyans only because they can sit down at their desks and draw up maps and then trick whole populations out of their land. I cannot with any conscience be on the side of Kuki Gallman against the Pokot. Sorry. The government must deal with the Pokot as people and not a nuisance.

This is totally unacceptable. This is worse than burning peoples houses. The Jubilee government is making a huge mistake here. Pastoralist communities occupy more than 2 thirds of the country and they all hold livestock very dear to them. They are also the most militaristic communities in Kenya. The Pokot are enemies with the Turkana and they will always have skirmishes and steal livestock from each other but they do not massacre the animals. If there is one thing that can unite the Pokot, Turkana and all other pastoralists together it is something like this. In a government that has no respect for their animals and their way of life they have a common enemy. NASA followers are talking about secession. A region cannot secede without an army or military force and Jubilee by doing something like this is giving them an army.

All trespassers, man and beast, will be shot. Why weren't you people complaining when the herders were killing policemen and ranchers? Btw these heavily armed immigrant herders have also killed and raped very many small scale farmers. And they shoot at the police while usimg cattle as a shield. Also, no herder will drive animals into someone's property (rancher or peasant) if they know the cattle will be shot.

https://www.the-star.co....ts-in-laikipia_c1595921

https://www.the-star.co....kipia-violence_c1531485

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How are the police supposed to deal with hawa watu? Everyone remembers kapedo and suguta valley.

https://www.standardmedi...-highest-loss-to-police

We need a "stand your ground" law like in the US and we should arm all kenyans so that they can defend themselves from intruders, like these pastoralists. That way even the small holder farmers can defend themselves. How can armed raiders storm your home and rape your wife and daughter as you watch, then steal your cows and goats? Then you say that we should listen to them and handle them fairly because that is their lifestyle? Are you mad? The only way to handle them should be a bullet in the head.

https://en.wikipedia.org...i/Stand-your-ground_law

http://www.nation.co.ke/...xhtml-bdp8qrz/index.html

We will wake up one of these days and find ourselves recolonized..The colonizers aided by our government.
Remember Boris Johnson jetting in here with 500M in drought aid?
I bet that was money to enhance "security" to keep the wazungu occupying lapsset land from bolting, before the extraction of oil in Turkana and SS starts.

@Dahatre at this rate, this is a possibility... Remember we were colonized before thanks to collaborators! It took so much deaths to reclaim our dignity... which we're now "reselling"...

This reminds me of what one Imam was reported in the media earlier today admonishing RAO for traveling to US/UK to bad-mouth Kenya.