North Rift leaders to be grilled over Nadome killings

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A section of North Rift leaders are today expected to be grilled by police over killings in the area in which more than 60 were killed last week.

The leaders who include West Pokot Senator Prof John Lonyangapuo, Tiaty MP Asman Kamama, who is also the chairman of the Parliamentary Security Committee, Kapenguria MP Samwel Moroto and Samburu North MP Alois Lentoimanga were summoned by officers from Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters in Nairobi.

Officials at DCI said they were supposed to appear last Friday but they requested to report on today. They among others are expected to respond to queries over the Nadome killings.

Gunmen from Turkana are suspected of launching an attack on May 4 against an ethnic Pokot village along the Turkana-East Pokot border, an area where there are frequent deadly conflicts between the two communities. This was after the Pokots had earlier attacked the Turkanas in a cattle rustling incident.