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10th January 2016, Recent reports coming from northeastern part of Kenya reveal that members of Al Shabaab fighters clashed with a local clan militia at the locality of El-Kolisha located between Elwak and stretching to the border with Somalia.
Al Shabaab militants who have been causing havoc in the past few weeks in NEP region especially in Mandera County met their match.
According to a villager witnessed speaking on condition of anonymity, Al Shabaab militants had crossed over to the Kenyan village in NEP and as usual started demanding resident to pay Zakat (levy on wealth) to them.
Residents who were angered by the extortion demand agreed they would comply to pay them the zakat from their livestock returns by the evening.
The clan militia vowed that they will revenge the death one person who hailed from this village and was killed by Al Shabaab militant when they attacked the Makkah bus just weeks ago.
The clan militia using all sort of crude weapons raided the militants who were unaware of the revenge plot.
Undisclosed combatants fled critically injured and may succumbed to the injuries. The clan militia also seized one rifle from the Al Shabaab combatants.
Government si ipatie hiyo community guns.
a republican kwa kijiji but sometimes hiyo argument yao hu make sense
I have an Ap friend amepostiwa huku huniambia sometimes community organise with police force to get military grade guns from Ethiopia and somalia. Ananiambia they even provide security for the consignment. So si kitu mpya.
So the villager witnessed the witness witnessing?
And why were the combatants not disclosed?
Its usually both good and bad. Take the example of Pokot militia that Moi decided to arm in the hope that they would repulse attacks from the Ugandan and Ethiopian cattle rustlers. They no longer used the weapons to defend themselves but also raid other communities’ livestock…
Mhh…militia begets militias
Kwanza during Moi’s time they used to raid marakwet and steal livestock openly with the support of their notorious tribal kingpin, Lotodo.
since gava imeshindwa kusecure hio area the millitia should do the job shida ni kucreate a never ending conflict kama ya IS
…ama ukute the militias one day turning against the gava kama story za Taliban…