Residents of Isiolo town are preparing for a peaceful demonstration to protest against the killing of 11 people during a raid last night.

Area MP and Livestock minister Mohammed Kuti as well as several other members of parliament are scheduled to address the residents.

The MPs are calling on the government to beef up security in the area that is prone to attacks by armed bandits and cattle rustlers.

The attack which occurred at area 78 last Sunday morning also left six people nursing wounds at the Isiolo district hospital.

Over 120 people have died in bandit raids in Isiolo and the surrounding areas in the last year following similar attacks.

Elsewhere, a herdsman is fighting for his life at Kakuma Mission Hospital after heavily armed cattle-rustlers shot him in a foiled raid at Lokipodo location Oropoi division of Turkana west district over the weekend.

Turkana west District Officer 1(DO) Eric Wanyonyi confirmed the incident saying security personnel on patrol responded urgently and managed to repulse the raiders believed to be from Uganda fled.

Wanyonyi said that the herdsman Lonyia Lominye was rushed to Kakuma mission hospital where he is being treated, adding that no animal were stolen in the attack.

The administrator praised the security team for their quick response pointing out the border security patrols will continue to curb incidences of cross-border cattle raids by gunmen from northern Uganda who often stray into Kenyan territories.

Meanwhile several pastoralists have crossed into northern Uganda in search of water and pasture as droughts continue to bite in Turkana.

Former lawmaker Emmanuel Imana said several teams of pastoralist with their livestock cross into foreign lands every year to search for pasture whenever the droughts become unbearable.

He said that traditional committees had the responsibilities of coordinating the sharing of the pastures to avoid conflicts that may arise from the program put in place by the communities along the border.

However, security chiefs have warned that the arrangements have always ended up disastrously after the peace treaties are ignored and raids executed.