- This comes after the CS ordered residents living in areas prone to banditry to vacate.
- Kindiki said security agencies have been undertaking intelligence gathering to establish the nature bandits are using to operate.
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The Law Society of Kenya president Erick Theuri has said the move by Interior CS Kithure Kindiki to declare order for people in banditry-prone areas to vacate is engaging in extra-constitutional measures.
Speaking on Tuesday at KTN, Theuri said the move to vacate parts of the country contradicts the constitution.
"The CS is engaging in acts that are extra-constitutional, he has no powers to issue those directives, the directive suspends the operation of the constitutional rights that are enjoyed by land owners and communities in that region," he said.
Theuri said the government should have provided them with basic needs and a safe place to vacate.
"These communities have a right to be given security by the government. It should have created safe havens with food, medical, shelter and food, move here as we deal with this situation," he said.
He said it's odd for the government to tell people to move out and deal with criminals because those criminals are still Kenyans.
"When a government is telling people to move out so that we deal with criminals, these criminals remember are Kenyans, you ask yourself exactly what kind of security operations the government is intending to effect in that area," he said.
This comes after the CS ordered residents living in areas prone to banditry to vacate.
Kindiki said security agencies have been undertaking intelligence gathering to establish the nature bandits are using to operate.
He said hundreds of heavily armed bandits are hiding in remote and inaccessible areas.
"We have found a way around the bad terrain. Therefore, security agencies will now onwards be taking the war to the bandits. We shall flush them out from their hideouts," the statement read.
"We shall venture and extract them from any forest, cave, gorge, ravine or escarpment within the soil of the Republic of Kenya."
Some of the areas the CS ordered residents to vacate include Korkoron Hills, Tandare Valley and Silale Gorges in Baringo County.
Mukogodo Forest; Kamwenje, Warero and Ndonyoriwo; Lekuruki Hills, Losos and Kiape Caves and Sieku Valley in Laikipia County.
Others are Ltungai Conservancy, Longewan, Nasuur, Lochokia and Lekadaar Escarpments; Lolmolok Caves, Pura Valley, Malaso Escarpment and Suguta Valley in Samburu.
Other areas include Kapelbok, Nakwamoru, Lebokat, Ombollion, Nadome and Kamur caves in Turkana County; the Turkwell Escarpment at the interface of West Pokot and Turkana Counties.
The CS reviewed the list and added Ng’elecha Hills and Gorges, Ramacha and Losokoni Caves, Laramoru Gorges, Karau Hills, Noosidan Escarpment, Rugus Caves and the Amaya Gorges at the interface of Baringo, Laikipia and Samburu Counties.