RESIDENTS of Tiaty subcounty have been given two more weeks to conclude boys’ circumcision rites and take them back to school.
“At that time, if you don’t find me in my office, then I am in Tiaty subcounty, struggling with thickheaded Pokots,” Baringo county commissioner Peter Okwanyo said on Wednesday.
On Wednesday last week, he issued a one-week ultimatum for parents of more than 3,000 boys to return them to school.
The deadline expired on Wednesday, but the commissioner and other leaders extended the period to mid-February.
Okwanyo said after the two weeks, the government will use force to send the boys back to school, whether healed or not.
He spoke in Kabarnet town as he presented cheques to 30 beneficiaries of Equity’s Wings to Fly programme.
Okwanyo was accompanied by Governor Benjamin Cheboi and woman representative Grace Kiptui.
“We need our children back in school to enable them compete with others across the country. The people here are still adamant to take them back to school,” Cheboi said. The governor said he will support the arrest anybody still involved in the rites after the notice ends.
