The peace committee called for immediate intervention by the security forces, saying that the armed warriors who are at their youthful stage have resumed attacks seriously on the community.
The Kalapata Town Council Security Committee in Kaabong district has
decried increasing cases of insecurity in their area. This comes at the time people are involved in opening
up their farmlands for cultivation as rain kicks off in the region.
The peace committee called for immediate intervention by the
security forces, saying that the armed warriors who are at their youthful stage
have resumed attacks seriously on the community.
The committee also stated that the cases such as rape,
torture, rob, cattle theft and murder have become rampant.
Jino Lopech, the LCIII Chairperson of Kalapa Town Council,
said that the security situation is deteriorating, and hindering farming
activities since the people cannot freely move to the distant gardens.
Lopech noted that the warriors are also raping the women who
go to the bush to collected firewood and fetching water.
He observed that the
wrong elements who are terrorising people are within the community, and they connive
with their counterparts from Kotido district and others from the Turkana side in
Kenya.
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Lopech also faulted the security forces for often releasing
the suspects who are arrested for illegal possession of firearms. Lopech explained that the community has been collaborating
with the forces by providing intelligence information about the warriors, but
when the suspect is arrested, some individuals bribe security forces to have
the suspect released.
Lopech said that such challenges have discouraged the
community from reporting cases of armed criminals in society for fear of their
lives.
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Stephen Latek, the Kaabong Resident District Commissioner,
said that the general security situation is relatively calm except for a few
cases of insecurity in some specific areas.
Latek noted that the pockets of criminals are making the lives
of the communities difficult by destabilising peace.
Latek revealed that the district security Committee is
working together with the justice, law, and order sector, and the community is
doing everything possible to bring back sanity in the affected areas.
Latek said that they have also commenced investigations into
the death of their LCII, who was killed by the warriors last week.
Latek wondered why warriors would be targeting leaders who
are the bridges between them and the government. He reiterated that they have
established new methods of security deployments to curb the resurgence of
insecurity.
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On Easter, armed warriors shot dead Raphael
Loten, the LCII Chairman of Lomeris Parish in the Kaabong West Sub-county. Loten
was shot dead at around 8:00 pm at his residence in Napeikodo Trading Centre.
