By MN Reporter

A family in Kuria East Sub County has donated land for community to promote peace in the area.

Rememusi ground, a 3ha land in Ntimaru west ward in Kuria East has been a land of battle and other cultural activities for a long time.

While addressing the press, one of the family members Mohere Marwa, said their family has decided to donate the bloody land to be used by the community as a sign of reconciling the two major tribes bordering the area.

“We decided to give this land away so that we can promote the peace that has been in this area currently, this place had become a battle field and possible it will now be a market”. Marwa said.

Wars in the area had attracted powerful officers from the national government including the former Inspector General David Kimayio and still the solution of the war could not be met.

“In this area we have received prominent leaders from the government coming to settle down the differences and it has not been possible, we call this a new beginning.” He added.

Mr. Marwa particularly blames political cattle rustling as the major source of the wars between the community and this has made the two clans live as there is a valley in between them while there is not.

Currently the two clans in the area do not share any government facility in between them and with a market situated at the centre; there will be one thing to bring together the two communities.

“This place does not share any government facility and that has also contributed to the differences within us, having a market in this land will be a blessing for the two of us,” he said.

Rememusi ground has been in wars since 1970 and politics changed everything in 1980 giving the wars in the area different direction.

“The worst confrontation happened in this area in 2007 due to the district headquarters and from that time we have not seen a major clash in the area”. He said.