Tseikuru Deputy County Commissioner Anetta Mwangi, Kitui Governor Julius Malombe, Kitui County Woman representative Irene Kasalu and Mwingi North MP Paul Nzengu Follow proceeding during the mass funeral service for the bandits victims at Tseikuru Primary school ground on Saturday/Musembi Nzengu.

Leaders led by Kitui Governor Julius Malombe and Including Mwingi North MP Paul Nzengu, Kitui woman Representative Irene Kasalu among others on Saturday pay their last respects to the seven who were executed in a bandits attack/Musembi Nzengu.

The caskets bearing the remain of the seven Kwa Kamari resided that were killed in a bandit attack/Musembi Nzengu.

Kitui Governor Julus Malombe addressing Mourners during the mass funeral service at the Tseikuru Primary School grounds on Saturday/Musembi Nzengu.

An emotional mass funeral service for the Seven.residents of Kwa Kamari village in Tseikuru award of Mwingi North subcounty in Kitui was held at Tseikuru primary school.

During the ceremony led by a Baptist Church Clegyman, Rev.Titus Musemge and where caskets of the seven were placed in a row before the crowd, leaders lead by governor Julius Malombe condemned the senseless killings.

After the service at which the Wiper Patriotic Front leader Kalonzo Musyoka who hails from Tseikuru addressed the mourners through a mobile phone link from Homabay were he had a political engagement, all the seven were taken to their respective homes for internment.

The deceased included Damaris Matei, Kilonzi Kauni, Mutua Kituu, Syengo Mwangangi, Tiyus Munyoki, Mulandi Kauni and Nicholas Syengo who were shot dead when the bandit attacked Kwa Kamari.

In his address Kalonzo also mourned the mindless and unskilled for killing of the seven and many others by criminals masquerading as camel herders from North Eastern Kenya who had invaded Kitui.

“The killing really pains and distresses me. It is a big blow not only to the local people but to the entire country at large,” said Musyoka.

However, Kalonzo urged the locals not to take the law into their hand by avenging for the seven who were killed in cold blood on Saturday last week in what is touted as a bandit attack.

"Our people, I beseech you not to take up arm to avenge for our people who have been killed. That will not bring peace but make the situation worse. I understood the pain you have suffered in the hands of the bandits but that is coming to an end soon," said Musyoka.

He pledged that once he is elected president of Kenya in in the next one and half years months he would bring the banditry menace to a stop.” Change is coming and the bandits will never again terrorise us,”  he said.

The MP for Mwingi North Paul in whose justification Tseikuru lies pointed that there was no bad blood better the Kambas and Somalis of North Eastern Kenya.

"It is wrong to frame the issue at hand as ethic clashes between Kambas and Somalis. Nothing is further from the truth. Those perpetuating mayhem and acts of banditry are criminal and such be treated as such," said Nzengu.

He however called on government security apparatus to hunt down criminals who killed the Kwa Kamari resident and ensure they were arrested and brought before the law.

Governor Malombe  said in.order.to end violence and banditry activities  all people who illegally occupying the Mwingi National Game Reserve must be evicted  as the protected area had for long served as the  hideout for criminals and gunmen who terrorise the locals.

"I want to know how many of you are endorsing plan to remove all people who have illegally occupied the Mwingi Game Reserve without exception," Malombe posed to the mourners as they unanimously raised their hands in affirmation.

Expressing pleasure that the national government had operationalized Kwa Kamari police station to bolter security in the area, the governor offered a personal donation of Sh. 80,000 as the final instalment for the purchase of the land where the police station stands. 

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