Bandits menace has reared its ugly head once again in the volatile Baringo county after a National Police Reservist (NPR) was shot dead while a deputy head teacher and a rider escaped death by a whisker but sustained gunshot wounds following an attack at the Nosukuro area in Baringo South.
The reservist, part of a four-member team guarding Nosukuro primary school was fatally shot in the chest and his firearm seized by the assailants. ‘
The injured are recuperating at Baringo County referral hospital even as local leaders pointed an accusing finger at local authorities for doing little to intervene in the menace that has already claimed 9 lives in Baringo this year alone.
The surge in violence has also prompted the closure of five schools in Baringo North, namely Kosile, Ngaratuko, Kibenos, Kagir, and Yatya, as residents flee the area, feeling besieged by bandits who now operate with impunity, enforcing a rule of lawlessness.
The death toll from banditry in Baringo County has risen to nine this year alone.
