Elimination of the Isiolo/Marsabit highway gang::

We had elephants to take care of. The Buffalo's of Kinna and the Sabarwawa lugga were killed for meat , and giraffes fell to home guards bullets , not to mention the friendly forces ; the general duty police ( GD ), the Alfa papa , ( AP ) and the general service unit ,( GSU) who actually supplemented the game meat with the dry rations ( compo 10 ) and called the fresh delicacy ; compo 11. We had to contend with all this headache for we were conserving flora and fauna in and out of the protected areas.

I was the company comander in charge of bravo coy , and our LOE ( line of exploitation ) was from Kora national park through Meru National Park, the whole of Samburu, Marsabit to Sibiloi national park. It was a hand full, but we had courage , and KWS HQ was alive to our needs and the Director was at hand to actually talk to field commanders on radio when need be, boy we were on top of the world. We had Richard Leakey as Delta One, and he moved mountains . We had a job to do.

We did not shy away from cattle rustling cause the local communities gave us information on both Wildlife herds and poacher movements, so we frustrated rustlers. Road banditry was police work but some how we were always the first to reach the scene and rescue situations, and the police loved us for this, cause the credit would always be theirs.
One day we received report of people stoping and robbing motorists on the isiolo Marsabit road, near sabashi hill ,but we failed to report fast for I did not have a motorized unit near by, but by 1700hrs a report came in that a government MOW vehicle has been hijacked and the officer in charge of roads in Marsabit district has been felled. It was latter reported that there were six passengers on board and they were all women.

We pulled out a unit from the special operation unit based in isiolo . One officer, a corporal and four rangers rushed to the scene and what they reported was shocking. There were two deaths, and all the women were abused . The normal vocal officer was so furious and shocked with the brutality of the attackers to the extent that he could not explain his intentions to me on radio.

The police failed to reach the scene before night fall so our men had to secure the place till morning. A second team reached them some times past mid night. In the morning they found the foot prints of the bandits heading east towards koom and it was then decided that it was no longer a police business but our own. ... . — feeling wonderful.