Interior CS Professor Kithure Kindiki when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Security today on March 1 2023 [Photo | Courtesy]
As the joint Kenya Police and Kenya Defense Forces deployment intensifies with security operations in the troubled areas of the Kenyan North with the aim of tackling the banditry menace, it has emerged that some bandits that can easily cross the Kenya-Uganda border have sensed danger and are fleeing to the nearby Uganda to avoid facing the wrath of the Kenyan forces.
Those reports have reached the Interior CS Prof. Kithure Kindiki and he today on March 1st 2023 reacted to the same, issuing a stern warning to the bandits crossing the border.
Prof. Kindiki who appeared before the Senate Committee on Security today morning acknowledged that there were such reports that had been brought to his attention and assured the public that his ministry was acting accordingly.
Collage photo of CS Prof. Kindiki (right) and a bandit with a gun running.
“For those bandits who have identified quick routes to Uganda and who are escaping to Uganda because they have their relatives there or because they think we’ll be doing the operation for six months and then they’ll come back, they’re mistaken.
“We are in discussions with the Government of Uganda and last week I requested my Principal Secretary Dr. Raymond Omollo to go to Uganda- he was with my counterpart that’s the Cabinet Secretary for East African Affairs because I was not available to travel- and they held high-level meetings with their Ugandan colleagues, two Ugandan Cabinet Ministers, that’s the Minister for Internal Affairs and the Minister for Karamoja Affairs.
After their meeting, we agreed that criminals will not take advantage of our border to hide from one jurisdiction to another.
That cheap thinking by the bandits that they can run from one jurisdiction to another and hide there for a few months then come back won’t happen.
I want to assure you that all bandits that escaped across our borders will not come back. This is because those areas under operations will not be accessible to criminals during and after the operations,” he said.
” criminals think that we are in a hide and seek game, that they are thinking they’ll hide in Uganda and then come back once the operation is over, they will not come back,” he concluded.
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