Mwingi Residents Demand Flashing Out of Camels as the Only Solution to Killings

By MWINGI TIMES CORRESPONDENT 

The remarks by the locals comes as burial preparations for the 14-year-old boy who was killed by camel herders triggering demonstrations in Mwingi and blockade of the Mwingi-Garissa highway is set to be laid to rest tomorrow. 

Joseph Mutemi is said to have gone to prepare some wood for charcoal burning when he was attacked and chopped with a knives by assailants believed to be camel herders. 

Ruth Muema, a resident of Kathûngû says that the killings of a child and a woman in the recent rampage in Kitui was a red line that caused animosity between a farming community and camel herding one.

"We have never witnessed killing of women and young kids before. These people have gone too extreme. Flashing out all the camels from Kitui is the only lasting solution," said Ruth. She said that flashing out of all camels from Kitui was the only route to get long lasting peace in Kitui.

Elizabeth Masila, a resident of Katangini in Sosoma location says that in the recent past even school going children flee from school, just by the sight of a camel due to trauma caused by the recent killings.  "Our children are living in fear. Once they see a camel on their way to school, they run back home for fear of being killed," she narrated.