Sell your camels if you can't manage them, MP tells Duale

Nzengu has told the former Garissa Township MP to drive all his camels away from Kitui or sell them.

The CS had disclosed during his vetting that he has over 230 camels in Kitui.

The legislator was speaking in Kaningo market where a man was brutally murdered last week and his eyes gouged out allegedly by camel herders.

Nzengu accused the government of punishing its own people as the clashes between camel herders and farmers in Kitui have been long overdue.

"Lives have been lost, people fled their homes for fear of attacks in their own land, farm produces destroyed. Is the government eating its own people?" the second term MP posed.

"If it is so hard for the government enhance peace for locals, then we will completely cut off any relationship with the herders, because they have proven stubborn," he  warned.

Tseikuru MCA Kimanzi Muange recalled how 59 years ago, bandits were still harassing Tseikuru residents among other areas along the border of Kitui and Tana River.

Kimanzi said in 1964, when he was hardly a year old, his mother carried him without a single cloth for fear of attack by the bandits after they invaded the area.

"Since I was months old, I'm now a senior citizen and a leader, and we are still running away from our land. Our people are still being killed." 

Muange said he has recorded statements at Tseikuru police station in two different occasions but nothing happened.

"We are tired and angry. Are we in North Eastern or in Kitui. Where's the government?"