Bandits To Get One-Way Ticket- Kindiki Issues Shoot-To-Kill Order
Kindiki directed the security officers to use lethal force on any criminal who tries to use a weapon to harm or shoot at them.
Marvin Chege 
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has issued a shoot-to-kill order to all security officers tackling armed bandits in the troubled Baringo County.
He was speaking on Friday, September 22 when he inaugurated the Akwichatis General Service Unit (GSU) Camp in Silale Ward, Tiaty Constituency.
Kindiki directed the security officers to use lethal force on any criminal who tries to use a weapon to harm or shoot at them.
"Any criminal that will try to use a weapon to shoot or try to harm a security officer, will go on a one-way trip. We will take him on a journey where he won't come back and we will buy him a one-way ticket," he announced.
Interior CS Kithure Kindiki interacts with security officers at Tiaty Constituency, Baringo County on September 22, 2023. /KITHURE KINDIKI
The CS went on to state that the security agencies manning the North Rift regions would deal squarely with individual criminals causing unrest in the regions.
"The Government will not profile or criminalise any community. Security officers must work with law-abiding citizens to identify the few criminal elements who terrorise innocent residents, impoverish them economically, and taint the image of an entire community," he added.
Kindiki went on to state that areas in North Rift Valley Counties that were gazetted as disturbed and dangerous remain so as Operation Maliza Uhalifu currently underway continues.
He also cautioned financiers responsible for funding the operations of criminal gangs in the regions, instructing security officers to apprehend them alongside the masterminds.
"Other than the recovery of stolen livestock, security officers must also apprehend and prosecute masterminds, financiers, and handlers of stolen livestock," he went on.
Kindiki noted that the existence of criminal gangs would not be used as a means of profiling communities living in the bandit-prone areas which is now an operation zone.
The order comes a day after the CS deployed special forces and elite units in Northern Kenya and Upper Coastal regions to ruthlessly pursue and neutralize armed criminals who are terrorising innocent citizens.
