{"id":229638,"date":"2026-04-06T13:43:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-turkana-disarmament-26-firearms-surrendered-as-community-cooperation-grows\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:43:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:43:59","slug":"kenya-turkana-disarmament-26-firearms-surrendered-as-community-cooperation-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-turkana-disarmament-26-firearms-surrendered-as-community-cooperation-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Turkana Disarmament &#8211; 26 Firearms Surrendered As Community Cooperation Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Twenty-six more firearms have been surrendered in an ongoing disarmament exercise in Turkana County.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The National Police Service (NPS) said the latest recovery followed a targeted operation in Katilu, where officers oversaw the voluntary surrender of illegal weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">According to the NPS, the firearms recovered include 21 AK-47 rifles, two M16 rifles, two MK4 firearms and one G3 rifle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The agency said the development reflects growing community cooperation and steady progress in efforts&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604060297.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Twenty-six more firearms have been surrendered in an ongoing disarmament exercise in Turkana County. The National Police Service (NPS) said the latest recovery followed a targeted operation in Katilu, where officers oversaw the voluntary surrender of illegal weapons. According to the NPS, the firearms recovered include 21 AK-47 rifles, two M16 rifles, two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":229639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7963,6454,13357,10476,9886,4688,430,257,254,6323,1793],"class_list":["post-229638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-community","tag-cooperation","tag-disarmament","tag-grows","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surrendered","tag-turkana"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}