Cattle rustling in Northern Kenya has over the years become an organised criminal enterprise responsible for deaths, destitution and displacement.
Its impacts are severe. It deprives pastoral communities their economic mainstay and aggravates the conditions of poverty in the rangelands, fuelling communal grievances and revenge attacks.
“To dismantle the infrastructure of cattle rustlers and facilitators, the Government is sustaining the war on banditry and its perpetrators, enablers, benefactors and beneficiaries by making banditry a painful venture, ensuring recovery of stolen livestock and rewarding facilitators of recoveries.
At Posta, Laikipia County, happy to have overseen handover of heads of cattle that had been stolen, recovered in full, and to reward security officers, local leaders and youth whose collaborative efforts have realized the recovery.
Going forward, the Government through the Interior Ministry will run a program to financially reward gallant officers and members of the public whose efforts will result in the arrest of the key planners, executors and enablers of banditry whose profiles will be published countrywide in the new year,” Cabinet Secretary for Interior & National Administration, Kithure Kindiki wrote on X.
Present at the venue where some Regional, County and local security heads, officers, area political leaders and members of the public.
