No Panic. Ik kom eraan ! 
Met 3 nieuwe mensen. ‘‘mijn Monique2’’ gaat ook op eigen houtje en neemt 2 vrienden mee.
We komen in totaal dus met 7 
Das al iets toch…
Mijn eeuwige optimisme over de veiligheid in Kenia wordt iets minder.
Aan de kust is er nog weinig aan de hand. (al hebben ‘locals’ in Kilifi een heel groot stuk land herovert van een rijke mzungu, met geweld)
Als ik onderstaande info lees, dan ben ik meer dan ooit overtuigd dat de kust nog OK is, maar het BOVEN Nairobi toch met rasse schreden erg veel minder wordt. Deze info heb ik uit zeer betrouwbare bron :
The murder of Tristan Voorspuy in Laikipia sent shock waves round the world and finally roused the authorities into action against the invading herders of the ranches and their stock, estimated to number about 135,000 head with many more sheep and goats. 379 herders and the Laikipia North MP were arrested and some stock moved off, but many remain and some have returned. The Standard editorial on Wednesday began: “The arrest of at least 379 herders in Laikipia County following the slaying of rancher Tristan Voorspuy and yesterday’s arrest of Laikipia North Member of Parliament Matthew Lempurkel over the violence are positive indicators that the government is slowly coming out of its lethargic state as insecurity mounts in parts of the country.” However, daily reports of vandalism and trespass are still coming in. The Daily Telegraph carried an obituary and two articles, one reasonable and the other comparing Kenya to Zimbabwe and blaming European settlers for stealing poor Africans’ land, and media coverage continued for the whole week. The desire by local people to take over tea plantation land in Kericho and Nandi Hills was also brought up.
Seven areas of Laikipia were gazetted as “disturbed and dangerous areas,” to be in force for 30 days unless revoked or extended, “paving the way for an operation to weed out bandits.” The National Security Council, chaired by the President, then authorised the immediate deployment of the KDF to the troubled areas of Baringo, Elgeyo-Marakwet, Pokot and Laikipia to support the Police in restoring law and order. In his announcement the President reaffirmed the government’s commitment to guaranteeing the safety of citizens and their property. The IGP has gazetted 26 locations in Baringo and Laikipia where residents may not possess arms, and they must all be surrendered to the authorities.
Laikipia North MP Mathew Lempurkel, who is out on bond after having been charged with incitement, is on record as saying he has launched “World War III against white farmers,” carefully sidestepping the fact that intruders have ejected and destroyed the crops of a number of Kikuyu and even Samburu small farmers, not to speak of shooting ex-President Mwai Kibaki’s nephew and leaving him confined to a wheel chair. At the start of the intrusions the President said the invasion of private property was intolerable, but there have been anomalies, one being that the DP issued orders to the Police to shoot to kill while the Police on the ground claim they have orders “to use no force.” The Interior CS said steps are being taken to remove the trespassers and their herds, but they appear to be increasing in numbers in some areas and are building themselves huts and bomas for the cattle, although some Police activity against the herds has indeed been observed. Some senior Administration officers once said all is calm and under control and that the ranchers have agreed with herders to graze their cattle, which was true only in a few cases which were ignored by the intruders. It has been openly stated that many of the cattle belong to senior government officials and politicians. The denial by the Police spokesman that the IGP was fired on in his helicopter while in the area was not supported by eyewitness reports of the incident.
Carcasses of game animals dot the Laikipia landscape, at least one more young elephant was killed and the tusks left, one buffalo and other animals were found killed, and in their place thousands of cattle have reduced most of the land to dust and stubble, and there are few or no tourists, although attempts to bring them back are being made by the few establishments which have not so far been affected. 66 sheep which were illegally grazing on Mugie Ranch were killed by wild dogs, which might be seen by some as an element of divine retribution. The latest cases of vandalism included the destruction of borehole pumps – which produced water used by the trespassers’ cattle.
In defiance of explicit instructions from the Police to leave the area, a team of Standard reporters spent a night with invading herders on Sosian Ranch, where they have built bomas for the cattle and insist they will not move out. They remain firmly on the occupied ranches, carefully ignoring the Police and now accompanied by groups of elders, women and children who are less likely to be fired upon by the security services. Wherever the cattle are moved out they either move back as soon as they can or go on to other areas. Quotes from the Monday Standard: “Ranchers in Laikipia County have become prisoners in their own homes, not daring to venture out in their vast farmlands as illegal herders armed with AK47 rifles, spears and poisoned arrows take over their land.” “…In the past six months more herdsmen have been arriving in occupied ranches, spilling over into previously unaffected ones…”…“Despite public tough talk of some senior government officials, Police officers deployed to guard the ranches are under instructions not to use force. And the herders seem to know this.” “A Police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they are under instructions not to shoot the herders…Another source told us that the animals do not belong to the herders but to senior government officials. The herders are a convenient smokescreen.” Latest reports are that trespassers are now cutting fences and vandalising property belonging to both Africans and Europeans only about 20 kms from Nanyuki township, with occasional exchanges of fire between them and the Police.
KWS has completed a programme funded with Shs.56 million by the French government to link the northern tourist circuits with the coast and elsewhere. National reserves in Bisanadi (Isiolo), Kora, Rahole (Garissa), Mwingi (Kitui), Tharaka-Nithi and Meru have been revived by community-based projects and recruitment of local game rangers, improved roads and airstrips.
Poachers have been taking advantage of the drought in Mpeketoni where buffaloes looking for water are said to have killed 13 people this year and 10 other people were injured but are recovering. Several buffaloes have been slaughtered for meat and KWS have prosecuted a number of people under the Wildlife Act. KWS at Nakuru warned local people to beware of buffaloes which have been straying outside the National Park and Lamu County government is now pumping water twice a day into the lake at Mkumbuni to sustain the hippos liable to die in the drying mud.
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