{"id":7994,"date":"2022-06-09T11:15:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7994"},"modified":"2022-06-09T11:15:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:15:54","slug":"herders-raid-farmers-in-meru-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7994","title":{"rendered":"Herders Raid Farmers in Meru County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four people were injured following conflict between farmers and herders in Ntukai, Meru County.Herders from Igembe North were said to be armed with guns and machetes, invaded sorghum and pea farms in Nkanga, Kachi\u00fb, Malaene, KwaLairang&#8217;i and K\u00eer\u00fby\u00fb with hundreds of cattle.Ntukai Chief Joel Mbilo said four people were injured in the conflict. &#8220;Administrators will be holding a public meeting in the area to address the conflict,&#8221; the chief said.Residents said that the herders have been attacking and robbing locals who attempt to stop them from grazing their cattle on their farms.The conflict comes two weeks after elders from Meru and Isiolo and local administrators resolved to end livestock-related conflicts and insecurity.The fight follows spike drought in Igembe Central.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FB_IMG_1654773126570-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FB_IMG_1654773126570-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FB_IMG_1654773126570-1-480x240.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 720px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four people were injured following conflict between farmers and herders in Ntukai, Meru County.Herders from Igembe North were said to be armed with guns and machetes, invaded sorghum and pea farms in Nkanga, Kachi\u00fb, Malaene, KwaLairang&#8217;i and K\u00eer\u00fby\u00fb with hundreds of cattle.Ntukai Chief Joel Mbilo said four people were injured in the conflict. &#8220;Administrators will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FB_IMG_1654773126570.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7997,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions\/7997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}