Kenya and Uganda are finalising a cooperation pact recently signed to resolve the Lake Victoria boundary disputes which have led to arbitrary arrests and confiscation of fishing gears, Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen said.
Murkomen was responding to complaints from fishermen over their plight in the hands of Ugandan security personnel manning Lake Victoria in Western and Nyanza regions.
He said some of the charges preferred against the fishermen are actually bribes that are solicited by rogue law-enforcing officers.
Addressing the media in Siaya after a closed-door joint regional and county security team meeting as part of the Jukwaa la Usalama, the CS noted that the matter has persisted and a lasting solution — the implementation of the Joint Cooperation Agreement signed between the two countries — is in the offing.
“President Museveni was in Kenya less than three months ago to sign a joint cooperation agreement.
During the meeting, which I attended, it was agreed that mining CS Hassan Joho and his Ugandan counterpart sit together and see how we can jointly benefit from the resources of Lake Victoria,” said the CS.
He recalled the meeting held between President William Ruto and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni to share and manage the resource.
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