Kindiki announces recruitment of additional 460 NPRs in Turkana » Capital News

NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 28 – Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has announced plans to recruit an additional 460 National Police Reservists to help beef up security in the clash torn areas of Turkana County.

Speaking after meeting the country county security chiefs, Kindiki announced that 5,600 stolen livestock has been recovered in the last month but regreted that 1,000 stolen livestock are still at large.

He stated that additional NPRs will supplement security officers in the front-line to pursue bandits as he urged the Turkana County Security Teams bolster efforts to recover the livestock in full.

“Occasional attacks in the areas contiguous to the Turkana-West Pokot border and at a few points near Kenya’s border with Uganda and South Sudan remains an outstanding assignment which the Government aims at addressing,” he stated.

The Interior Cabinet Secretary pointed out that recently commissioned modern equipment and weapons have been deployed to the hotspots of banditry, terrorism and other armed crimes.

Kindiki further appealed to political leaders to rally their constituents to abandon acts of crime like livestock rustling and coexist peacefully.

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