Baringo County Women representative Gladwell Jesire Cheruiyot has asked the clergy to pray for an end to cattle rustling and banditry attacks affecting her region.
She said retrogressive cultural practices have hampered the economic growth of the region as others develop.
"Kenyans should take time to pray for an immediate end to these abnormal killings of people, stealing of their animals and displacements from homes. It is only through divine intervention that the region can have peace’’, She said.
Jesire asked the government to work closely with professionals and the clergy to ensure the attacks are contained.
"The government should dig deep and unravel the root cause of the attacks," she said.
She appealed for rehabilitation programs to be put in place to have youths engage in economic ventures.
The legislator blamed the attacks for the high illiteracy level in the area saying many youths have failed to go to school for fear of losing their lives.
On political matters, she said those opposing calls by President Uhuru Kenyatta to have the country united is akin to taking he people of Rift Valley to the opposition.
"Rift Valley has long been in government and this time we will not head there," she said.
She told residents of Trans Nzoia and the North Rift not to be misled by some leaders whom she said wanted to divide them into ethnic and political grounds to achieve their selfish interests at the expense of peace and the dignity of the country.
