Tanzania October 2006 |
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| Committee to probe Kenya, Tanzania border insecurity, (Daily News, 2006-10-20):-A team of police officers from Tanzania and Kenya has been tasked to asses the security situation at the common border in Tarime and Trans Mara districts. The two countries are trying to improve security and end cattle rustling, which stem from cross-border raids involving border communities. The team is made up of Tarime Officer Commanding District (OCD) and his counterparts from the neighbouring Kurya and Trans Mara Districts in Kenya. According to the Tarime District Commissioner, Mr Stanley Kolimba, the police officers have been tasked to study the situation and make recommendations that will help to end criminal activities around this area. Mr Kolimba told reporters in Tarime yesterday that the officers have been given 14 days to complete the work, which started last week. "After completing their work they will forward the finding to the security and defence organs in both countries (Kenya and Tanzania)," he pointed out. He also said that the team will investigate the recent incident in which a peasant was killed by a group of people believed to be Kenyan cops at Mangucha village in Tarime district, Mara Region. During the incident, the alleged Kenyan police officers were also said to have abducted one Mwera Otaja, also a resident of Mangucha village, who has since been under police custody in the neighbouring country. Few days after the incident, top Kenyan and Tanzanian government officials met in Tarime to discuss the issue. But the Rift Valley Provincial Police Officer (PPO), Larry Kiyeng, later claimed before reporters that Otaja and the deceased Marwa Wang'oso were cattle rustlers. According to Mr Kolimba, the Kenyan police have been given time to investigate and establish whether Otaja was really arrested in connection with cattle resulting. | |
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