Turkana County leaders are a relieved lot after the government, through the National Security Council, deployed the army to flush out more than 200 heavily armed militia from neighboring South Sudan who had displaced Kenyan pastoralists along the pasture-rich Mogilla ranges in Turkana West Sub-county.
Led by Governor Josphat Nanok and Turkana West MP Daniel Epuyo, the leaders said that last month's incursion by herders from the Toposa community - characterised by large herds of livestock and sophisticated weapons like rocket-propelled grenades, automatic machine guns, AK47 rifles and ammunition - resulted in mounting tension in villages and kraals within the 50-kilometre radius from the border.
