By MWINGI TIMES CORRESPONDENT
For a remote village in Tseikuru sub county, Mwingi North constituency, what ordinary Kenyans regard as daily happenings, they consider such as a privilege. And when bandits struck, their MP Paul Nzengu believes lack of communication masts could be a factor that enabled the rampage. Speaking in the National Assembly, the legislator recalled that his constituents could not make calls to the nearest police station in Tseikuru town for help when assailants invaded them with automatic rifles and machetes killing seven people.
The MP called upon the National Government to operationalise the newly constructed police station at Kwa Kamari. Despite the County Government of Kitui having built the facility, it is unable to help residents since it lacks basic resources to serve wananchi.
"I want to ask the Government of Kenya within the next one week to operationalise the station so that we give security to residents", said MP Paul Nzengu.
He went on, "there is also the issue of network. I want to appeal to the Communication Authority. People tried to make calls to police officers in Tseikuru but they could not get hold of them because there was no network".
According to the Mwingi North MP, the constituency has lost many innocent lives to banditry in the recent past. "From 2015 to date in Tseikuru, 85 people have been killed in this manner. In Ngomeni, 70 people were killed", said Eng Nzengu.
It is believed that the camel herders come from Wajir and Mandera counties to graze their camels, at times invading farms and destroying crops besides causing loss of lives to locals and scarring them for years.
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