A BOY,14, KILLED, HIS FATHER ,70, SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN MANDERA

BY ADOW JUBAT

After months of lull a 14 years old boy, was killed, while his father, 70, was seriously injured in a raid on Friday morning in Banisa sub-County, Mandera County in North-Eastern region of Kenya.

The attacked village in Guba location,is predominately settled by Degodia tribesmen, who have been engaged with fierce communal skirmishes with Garre clan last year. 

 

The inter squabbles that last better part of last year claimed more 60 lives, displaced tens of thousands of others from their homes.

Confirming the incident on phone, the Mandera county commissioner Alex Ole Nkoyo said the assailants suspected to be members of from Garre community (considering the attacked village) descended onto the quite village early on Friday morning killing the minor and his elderly father after indiscriminate shooting into the sleeping villagers.

The County commissioner said, a team of security personnel were deployed to the area from Banisa and Takaba sub-counties to pursue the criminals, who were ill bend on disrupting the prevailing peace embraced by hitherto warring clans of Degodia and Garre.

According to a reliable source, the new hostility was brought about by dispute which emerged between members of the two clans, over the ownership of Abagire village, which was destroyed in the previous inter clan feuds.

Members of Garre community who claimed to be the rightful owners of the village reportedly went to the area on Thursday morning to reestablish settlement, a move seen by the members of the rival Degodia clan as provocative.

Security moved in quickly and dispersed the two communities from the dispute piece of land, which has been the "ignition key" in the of most of the past conflict before directing them none of the two communities should establish a settlement in the area and other disputed places until Ole Kaparo mediation team recommendations is out.

Ole Nkoyo urge the two communities to maintain the prevailing peace experienced in the County since the clans signed a comprehensive peace agreement last year noting that the County has made a lot of progress due to the collaboration between the local communities.

"I urge the communities living in Mandera to refrain from inter clan conflict, which will make people suffer and retard development. People should learn from the progress made in terms of interaction and co-existence since the conflict ended, after the clans agreed to give peace a deserving chance", he said.