Bandits shoot, damage helicopter dropping exam papers in Kapedo
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Police launch investigations after suspected bandits shoot and damage helicopter dropping exam papers in Kapedo
Police launch investigations after suspected bandits shoot and damage helicopter dropping exam papers in Kapedo.
Multiagency teams are looking into an attack in Kapedo, Turkana county, that resulted in a helicopter being shot at and damaged.
The private chopper is among those that had been hired by the Kenya National Examination Council to distribute national examination papers on November 1 when the incident happened.
Accorting to police report, the incident happened at about 12pm.
Captain Imam Makanda, a pilot of Helicopter 5YZKL, and his co-pilot William Maiyo were on their way to Samburu county after distributing KCPE and KPSEA examination papers in parts of Turkana county between Lokori and Kapedo when they heard gunshots.
They later realised their chopper had been hit by the bullets.
The pilot managed to fly the helicopter and landed safely at Maralal police station with no injury reported.
The area is among those badly affected by insecurity in northrift region due to cattle rustling by bandits.
Bandits are behind the trend of attacks are so emboldened that they strike at will.
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This comes after Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki visited Baringo, Laikipia and Samburu as part of efforts to heighten the war on the gunmen.
He said politics, ethnicity, culture, religion or other affiliations must be separated from the fight against the criminal atrocities perpetrated against the people of Kenya through the terror of bandits.
“The government is determined to permanently destroy the intricate infrastructure of banditry by going for its benefactors, beneficiaries, accessories, planners and executors,” Kindiki said.
He said political and other leaders must refrain from politicising security matters or trying to meddle in security operations to allow the organs and agencies wage a decisive, ruthless and conclusive war against the impunity and terror of banditry.
Kindiki said multiagency security officers deployed in the six North Rift Valley counties will remain on the ground for the long haul, until the banditry menace is eradicated.
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