Several people nursing injuries after fresh clashes erupt in Kuresoi South

Scores of people are nursing serious injuries after fresh clashes erupted in the volatile Olposimoru area in the border of Kuresoi South and Narok North Sub County after two communities living in the area differed over grazing fields.

Mwangi also said a contingent of security officers had been deployed in the area to man the volatile boundary and ensure peace was restored.

He said, “security personnel from Nakuru have been dispatched to man the border of Nakuru and Narok counties to avert the spillover of the chaos to their jurisdiction. We are taking precaution to ensure that our people do not cross over to Narok and get involved in the chaos.”

Olenguruone sub-county hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Solomon Bera confirmed three more people had been received with arrow wounds and have been booked for surgery.

“Two had arrow injuries on the lower limbs and currently we are attending to one patient with arrow injury on the back region but all are in stable condition”, he said.

According to the residents, the clashes between the Kipsigis Community and Maasais living in the area were fueled by conflict over grazing land in Mau forest.

Olposimoru Assistant Chief Jackeline Kool said efforts to contain residents from both the clans were futile, while asking the government to beef up security in the area.

She confirmed that several houses were burnt, causing panic in the area that has experienced on and off tension in the past.

In the year 2018, the government imposed a three-month dawn to dusk curfew in the area after prolonged clashes that had seen tens of people killed and others left nursing injuries.

The then Narok County Commissioner George Natembeya, now the Regional Commissioner based in Nakuru lifted the 6 pm to 6 am curfew after uneasy calm returned in the area.