Earlier this month the case against five herders, which had been going been going on nearly a year, was dismissed with the magistrate ruling the five herders had “no case to answer”. The prosecution had failed to show there was sufficient evidence that would require the accused to put up a defense. So the DC’s attempt to ‘make an example of them’ has failed and only strengthened the communities determination to oppose Thomson. According to the case charge sheet from July 2012, two of the herders (Kikanay Rogei and Somito Mingini) are in fact children. Therefore the prosecution against these two minors for criminal trespass was illegal as well as seemingly malicious.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:12:30 +0000
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