The Government of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy, William
Ruto, has capped the death toll in the recent banditry attack in Baringo to a
paltry 7.
This was revealed by Kenya Red Cross
officials who said that the Government had exerted pressure on them to scale
down the death toll from over 100 to only 7.
This comes even as intelligence on the
ground indicated more than 100 people were killed by the bandits during the
attack and retaliatory attacks on Tuesday between Turkana and Pokot
communities.
Speaking yesterday, KRC officials
revealed how Uhuru/ Ruto’s Government threatened them with deaths if they
didn’t denounce their earlier report and announce that only seven people were
killed down from over 100 reported deaths.
“The Government is not interested in
giving the facts as they are. They have told us to say that only 7 people died
whereas over 100 people were killed and bodies are everywhere as proof,” said
one KRC official.
“They forced us to reduce the figure to
somewhere around seven causalities but we stood our ground,” he added.
The Jubilee Government is keen on
averting a public backlash over rising insecurity in the country and would do
anything, including falsifying figures of the dead, to achieve that objective.
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