By RONNEL ONCHAGWA in NairobiPosted Thursday, September 8 2011 at 19:47
Placard waving demonstrators from Kenya's Isiolo County Thursday attempted to block President Mwai Kibaki’s motorcade outside his Harambee House offices in Nairobi.
The motorcade stopped briefly as security people dispersed the demonstrators who had come to the city to protest against the escalating incidents of insecurity in their county.
Nairobi deputy police boss Moses Ombati said that no one was arrested over the incident.
The demonstration was triggered off by reports that a pastoralist village around Lesosia area in Isiolo, about 35okm north of Nairobi, was attacked Wednesday morning, where five people are said to have been killed and three others critically injured.
According to the demonstrators, 34 Borana (local people) herders have been killed and 16,000 head of cattle stolen from them in the last one year.
The residents drawn from mostly the Borana and Somali communities, accused government security officials of failing to protect them from hostile neighbours.
Ultimatum
They claimed that the government disarmed them, but their neighbours refused to give up illegal fire arms.
In a memorandum presented to the President, the Prime Minister, Internal Security minister and the Police Commissioner, the residents asked the government to transfer all senior security officials from Isiolo and Samburu counties and disarm neighbouring communities.
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