The West Pokot Deputy Governor Titus Loote has said the military will fail to wipe out bandits in the North because they are using force.
He urges the government to start involving leadership in areas so that it becomes a solution solved by all.
Titus also advised the government to go in a direction that does not involve power force.
“The Pokot and Turkana are now moving to Karamoja,” he said.
Karamoja was one of the spotlights before Museveni’s intervention.
Uganda President, Museveni, used technical tactics to mop out the guns in Karamoja.
Museveni made Karamoja a Ministry in the National Government of Uganda ‘Karamoja Affair’.
“He made his wife Janet Museveni minister of the affair where a lot of projects took place,” Loote said.
Loote said that the government is doing the exact thing the late President Daniel Moi did in Kacheliba where his actions did not bear any tangible fruits apart from the deaths and destructions that followed.
Kacheliba was later saved by late President Mwai Kibaki.
“Kibaki started the ‘Jenga jamii’ in Kacheliba which brought peace in the area. He involved the military where they came as a human face. The military provided water, went to school to teach, provided medical camps which in turn brought a lot of development,” Loote explained.
He also explained that most of the bandits have not gone beyond class 8 .
This is because they are denied a place in school and hence grow into adoring cows and think that the cow is everything ‘god’ and would even kill for it.
He urged the government to give these people an opportunity like any other Kenya just as he was given.
Loote said that the government should borrow a layer from what the late President Mwai Kibaki did.
