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700 threaten to boycott work
Story by SAMUEL SIRINGI and BERNARD KWALIA
Publication Date: 2007/04/05
More than 700 civil servants have threatened to move out of Mt Elgon District due to insecurity.
The Government employees said yesterday that they cannot stay in an area in which killings was the order of the day.
On Sunday, six people including a teacher, were killed in Kapsokwony, the district headquarters of the area, after more than 100 gangsters invaded the town.
The chairman and secretary of Kenya Civil Servants Union for Mt Elgon branch, Mr Benson Ambuni, and Mr Kiano Ndiema said there has been no work due to fear and anxiety since Monday.
Mr Ambuni said they had given the Government one month to restore security in the area or they move away.
“There has been no signal that there will be work since Monday and it is upon the State to institute urgent measures to restore peace within the next one month,” Mr Ambuni said.
Mr Ndiema said if the Government did not take substantive steps, they will ask their members to stay at home. Most civil servants who work in the district live in Kimilili Town in the neighbouring Bungoma District, about 10 kilometres from Kapsokwony Town.
Spending the night
Mr Ambuni said less than 10 families were spending the night in Kapsokwony after the Sunday attack.
The attack took place less than a kilometre from the police station, the district commissioner’s residence and the AP line. The town has been virtually deserted after the attack, with many families fleeing to the neighbouring districts of Trans Nzoia and Bungoma. Others have sought refuge in Uganda. More than 30,000 families have fled the district.
The acting area DC, Mr Julius Otieno, appealed to the residents to be
calm.
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