Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has ordered security personnel to deal decisively with armed bandits terrorising residents and motorists along Lodwar-Kitale highway.
Senate Speaker Amason Kingi arrived in Lodwar on Monday morning for the week-long Senate Mashinani sittings that have also brought a lot of optimism to Turkana.
Various senate committees took time to look at various issues which have held back the vast county, despite receiving more than Sh100 billion over the last ten years of devolution.
The ban was enforced after fishermen started engaging in illegal fishing.
IRC has partnered with Turkana county government to operationalise the rescue centre, which is expected to accommodate the first batch of 40 street children by December.
The two pupils had been allegedly living together as husband and wife and have not been attending school for the better part of this term.
The government is set to deploy modern air equipment to help fight the banditry menace in the North Rift region, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has said.
At least five people were killed in separate incidences in Turkana county as insecurity escalates.
The livestock will be returned to Uganda once the owners have been identified.
Detailed site maps for six locations planned for slum upgrade under the Kenya Informal Settlement Improvement Program II (KISIP) have been completed.
Tension remained high in the Kakuma refugee camp in the Turkana West sub-county following protests over the reduction of food rations.
A source privy to security says a number of the youth require psychological counselling due to alleged human rights violations while in various prisons.
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