Tues 9th August 2022, Election Day
In the sleepy Kabimoi trading centre in Baringo County, communities are now on the brink of going to war over the little that is left of the Emining river. Residents armed with bows and arrows stand guard over the dying river that once supplied water to several villages downstream. This has been the norm for close to a month now after an ambush by a group of youths from the neighbouring Mogotio sub-county. The Mogotio group, most of whom live in Emining area, claimed to be stopping illegal diversion of water upstream as they destroyed pumps, pipes and other infrastructure.
Rain has come