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| Hon.Bonaya Boru Bonaya-Politician-Isiolo County |
Isiolo County residents living in the Chari and Cherab areas, have in recent past, experienced a sporadic attack from their neighbouring Samburu community. Such conflicts are mainly triggered by cattle rustling and fight over scarce pasture and water points. Fight, kill, steal, get killed. Such is the lifestyle of the pastoral communities.
However, the recent conflict in Isiolo North constituency has a political hand in it. The pastoral communities that previously had insatiable appetite for cattle rustling has now resolved to a new tactic, kill-and-go, which has raised eye brows.
I am not a voter in Isiolo North constituency, but i can tell you for free, all this attacks are a well planned tactics by a certain prominent individual in Isiolo County (whom i chose not to disclose for my own security) to politically kill Hon Hassan Odha, MP Isiolo North.
The Borana community has become a soft target, where they get killed in their own land, almost on daily basis.
Hon Odha has two options; defend his kinsmen's ancestral land the way Samburu leaders do, or just ignore this conflict like any other Isiolo County leaders.
If he defends the Borana, he must be prepared to lose the Samburu votes (Including the Turkanas and Merus). However, when he ignores the Borana plea, he must be ready to be termed a traitor and also lose their votes. This is already evident from yesterday's happening at Kuro Bisan Owwo, where the MP failed to turn up due to unclear circumstances.
Either way, the MP is at a crossroad, and that's exactly what the master planner wants. Support Borana, lose Samburu votes or ignore the killings, lose Borana votes. Period.
As much as we want peace to prevail, lets not look further, our enemy is within. Inciting people against each other for self political gain? Or defaming someone else politically at the expense of innocent lives? Isn't this a conspiracy of evil?
This politicians have no idea that power is as temporary as an erection, it won't last forever. Take a case of Omar Al Bashir.
My name is Bonaya B Bonaya
★Disclaimer:This post originally appeared on Bonaya B Bonaya's Facebook timeline and is not a publication of ICBN.★
*Bonaya is a politician and blogger based in Isiolo county.He vied for the MCA seat in Garbatulla and lost to the incumbent, Abdi Sora Balla.
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