Tana River leaders distances themselves from the remarks made by Kitui colleagues to have the two schools within the disputed area be degazetted
Four legislators also wants their 100KM stretch claimed to have been in Kitui County be reversed to their land once the new IEBC is properly constituted
Tana River County Leaders have distanced themselves from the utterances made by their counterparts from Kitui County on Wednesday 18th September, when they claimed that they agreed on the deregistration of two Primary Schools at the border points
Speaking at Parliament Buildings on Thursday 19th September, led by Bura lawmaker Yakub Adow and Garsen Member of Parliament Ali Wario, the leaders termed the utterances made by their colleagues from Kitui County led by vocal Mwingi Central legislator Dr Gideon Mulyungi as inciteful and insensitive
According to the MPs, Mulyungi’s remarks that Kuriti, Kalalani and Katsangani Primary Schools are in Kitui County is not true and that they did not agree anywhere to deregister them when they met Interior and National Administration Principal Secretary Dr Raymond Omollo as they reported yesterday in the evening
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‘’Those Primary Schools are registered polling station by the Independent, Electoral and Boundaries Commission and are within Tana River County, they have been there for more than twenty years.
I was born in Katsangani and in fact got more than 500 votes from the said polling station,’’ Bura MP Yakub Adow stated
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Galole lawmaker claimed that they will not accept the boundary review which was proclaimed by Kitui leaders to have been gazetted in 1992, where the boundary line is at Ukasi
According to them, that cutline was extended by over 100 kilometers entering their land, where they graze their livestock. ‘’The purported game reserve in that area is pure scheme to take our land because the area does not even have a single dik-dik,’’ Galole MP Said Buya stated
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Garsen lawmaker maintained that they will not accept Ministry of Lands to put any demarcation at that line of 1992, while maintaining that Konakaliti, Kalalani, Kuriti and Katsangani belongs to the people of Tana River Delta
‘’I want the security apparatus to take stern action against that inciting violence amongst the peace-loving communities which has coexisted for decades, let the people who have hired their lands for grazing camels come out clean and tell the people of Kitui the truth instead of playing the game of hide and seek,’’ Ali Wario underlined.
He emphasized that they never agreed anywhere to close down the schools because innocent children must be allowed to learn, condemning those who vandalized social amenities like schools and hospitals within the area