By KT Reporter
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.
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.
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.
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-URN. Give us feedback on this story through our email: kamwokyatimes@gmail.com
