Kisumu,Nandi clashes are political, civil society says

Clashes between communities living along the Kisumu and Nandi counties are political and nothing to do with cattle rustling, national civil society congress has said.
NCSC president Morris Odhiambo said their investigations had confirmed that the clashes are land related but the government is “attempting to cover up the real motives”.
“The violence follows a similar pattern of pre-election violence, the kind of violence that led to the death of over 200 Kenyans in Tana River in 2012,” he said.
The government had claimed the skirmishes are as a result of cattle rustling.
The four-day clashes have led to the death of four people, while ten others are nursing serious injuries.
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More than 2,000 people have been displaced at the troubled
Nandi-Kisumu border .
Those displaced, mostly women and children, are camping at Achego AIC church, while others are housed at a Post Office in Songhor area.
Two schools have been closed indefinitely, and local leaders are accusing security officials of laxity.
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Addressing the media in Nairobi on Sunday, Odhiambo hit out at the National Cohesion and Integration Commission chairman Francis Ole Kaparo saying the commission has been wasting public resources doing nothing.
“NCIC is reactive and not proactive, cohesion is created when there is no violence,” he said.
Kaparo was on June 23, chased away by residents and two MPs from the disputed area in the Kisumu-Nandi border after trying to intervene.
Read; NCIC boss Kaparo thrown out of meeting in Muhoroni
“NCIC is completely asleep and is now the worst commission being chaired by a politician,” he said.
Odhiambo said land grievances have been raised to the National Land Commission but no action has been taken.
The government has deployed about 400 police officers to the region to help quell the fighting.
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