A Kenyan Chief and an Administration Police (AP) officer were injured during the weekend, after being roughed up by Ugandan authorities at the disputed Migingo Island.
The female Assistant Chief, Esther Masasi, was allegedly approached by Ugandan fishermen and security officers who informed her that she had been summoned by a police boss at the island.
According to Masasi, the officers questioned her role as an administrator, claiming that the area was supposed to be managed by the Uganda Government, before descending on her with blows.
"They came and found me near the beach and they informed me that I was required at the police station manned by Ugandan officers, saying their police chief, Sergeant Denis Nenis, had summoned me. I told them that was not the best way to summon me and they pulled me off my seat and started raining blows and kicks on me," Ms Masasi narrated.
The administrator said that the Kenyan AP officer, Samuel Ocharo, who was manning the area intervened in an attempt to rescue her, but the Ugandans attacked and inflicted serious injuries on him.
The scuffle is said to have caused tension at the disputed island, as the Ugandan authorities harassed Kenyan fishermen who complained of being neglected by the government which had deployed fewer security agents compared to Uganda.
"We currently have only four police officers in this place when the Ugandans have about 30 of them," they lamented.
The recent development comes just days after two clerks of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) were arrested and their Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kit seized.
The Ugandan officers ordered the IEBC headquarters in Nairobi to write a letter, explaining why the clerks were registering fishermen in the region without their knowledge.
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