ELWAK - LAFEY AREA ISSUES : Border Demarcation at Elwak Police Station.
This week a lot has happened in Lafey and Elwak subcounties in Mandera County and the government of Kenya, i think must be aware of, has not said anything. It is a high time, they sought these issues.
The Garre Community has been assaulting Murule Community from time immemorial and the repercussions are dire. One instances is the Elgolicha Massacre which Murule Community carried out an attack to stop Garre's Assault in Elwak Area where 25 Garre people were massacred in 2005 and 1,500 families flee from that area. It was a headline news.
Police later said the incident appeared to have been a revenge attack by MURULE clan against GARRE for an earlier raid.
This week, However, The same is happening. Murule herdsmen and women in around Garre-Murule Border at the Elwak - Wargadud Road, in one instances raping a Murule Girl tending to her animals near Haresuku along the Elwak Wargadud Road, this week.
This happened after Garre Community, with it's Militia that also works with Terrorists in Alungu, Lafey and Arabia Wards and near Elwak Border has beaten another Murule Herdsman, an old man trying to find his stolen camel, which are said to be inside Garre Territory.
Garres have a history of stealing Camels. The Video below is Camels stolen from Degodia Community in 1964.
Again This week, another man, a servant of Murule Community, tending to some animals was almost killed by the Garre Community and still managed to escape.
All these is done and the Murule Community is still pursuing Peace. The Government of Kenya talks about Peace when Murule acts but does nothing when Garre are asaaulting Murule. Our Murule Elders keeps talking about Peace when there are Garre Refugees from Elwak Somalia who have settled in Yetho, Wanteey, Qurqura, Elgolicha and Haresuku Areas -all of which are Murule Grazing lands.
We urge the Government of Kenya to deal with these Garre Militia that also acts as ALSHABAAB proxies within Mandera County or we deal with them once and for all. They made sure that Elwak-Lafey-Mandera unpassable because of their terrorist activities.
We can deal with them but let us get an assurance there will no interference from the Government of Kenya.
