Bernard Kwalia
25 April 2008
Nairobi — The beneficiaries of the controversial Chepyuk settlement scheme in Mt Elgon District have been asked to go back and resume cultivation.
Those who had been allocated land in the first two phases should return to their respective plots and continue with normal activities, Western provincial commissioner, Abdul Mwasera said.
Mr Mwasera said the State had beefed up security in the area and would set up military and GSU camps in the scheme as well as in other insecurity prone divisions. Training camps for all of Kenya's forces, he said, would be set up in Mt Elgon forest. Speaking to the Nation, the administrator warned that nobody should settle in phase three of the scheme until the dispute surrounding it was resolved.
The PC appealed to families that had fled from the scheme and other areas in the district to return home. Mr Mwasera said the ongoing joint operation by the military, GSU, regular and administration police officers had started bearing fruit as prime Sabaot Land Defence Force suspects had been arrested and arraigned in court. He said more than 800 suspects had been taken to court and about 100 are still being interrogated. Mr Mwasera said the officers recovered three more AK-47 rifles with 40 bullets and a hand grenade at Chepyuk scheme Thursday.
Fifty three guns, about 1,500 live bullets and three grenades have been recovered since the military operation started last month.
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