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Why efforts to recover stolen livestock in Baringo fail

Baringo demos

Baringo residents protest against insecurity after over 700 cattle were stolen in Lomoiwe village on September 24, 2021.

Photo credit: Cheboite Kigen | Nation Media Group

By  Florah Koech

Correspondent

Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • Many residents have been impoverished, displaced from their homes or killed.
  • Residents say the situation was aggravated when the government disarmed police reservists.

If you lose your livestock to rustlers in Baringo County, it's almost certain that you will never get them back. And there are myriad reasons.

On September 23, Benjamin Kangogo lost more than 24 of his cows, his economic mainstay. 

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