The Government has frozen the creation of new administration units – sub-locations, locations, divisions, and sub-counties, as units of service delivery in Eastern and Northeastern Regions and land adjudications along counties’ boundaries in the regions until after the August general elections.
Speaking in Isiolo today after chairing a meeting of security chiefs from Meru and Isiolo counties, Matiang’i expressed concern over what he termed as the politicization of boundary issues.
The Interior CS added that the decision was informed by what he termed as the “need to avoid milking political capital out of the exercises and avoiding exacerbating ethnic, clan and other potential disagreements around the process.”
MAtiang’i further said, “There is a challenge of a boundary between Meru and Isiolo. It is a challenge because of attempts on both sides to politicize an issue that has no politics at all because under the act the boundaries are very well defined”.
A number of counties in the regions have been experiencing cross-border conflicts around disputed boundaries and access to resources such as land, pasture and water.
The affected counties include Meru-Isiolo, Meru-Tharaka Nithi, Isiolo-Garissa, Kitui-Tana River, Makueni-Taita Taveta and Makueni-Kajiado.