Cattle Rustling

For many years pastoralists have been involved in forceful acquizition of livestock from other communities. Security forces and local administration dismiss cattle rustling as just a fight for animals but this has since mutated into a major criminal activity.
Mrs. Ataba Lokopir is a widow due to this brutal act, she lost her husband and two children to raiders after were attacked by heavily armed Tepes raiders from Uganda driving all their animals leaving them impoverished. This is not what used to happen in the early days, the raiders never used to shed blood but instead steal the livestock. These days the raiders make sure they clear everybody to avoid being killed in retaliation, they do not spare children, women or elderly people. Mrs. Ataba languishes in poverty as her husband was the sole breadwinner.

Location: Turkana, TURKANA, KENYA