Find out the ORIGIN of the word MPEKETONI.Can this the cause of the current attacks?

Mpeketoni was made as a settlement in the late 1960s and early 1970s by President Jomo Kenyatta to settle landless Kenyans, chiefly from Murang'a and different parts of the previous Central Kenya, who were ousted from Tanzania after the breakdown of first East Africa Community.

The settlement was revolved around a new water lake named after the first President of Kenya.

The first tenants were Bajuni and Watta who were soon dwarfed by the newcomers. Different tribes including Luo and Akamba additionally live there.

Mpeketoni township, owes its name to an admixture of Kiswahili "Mpe" signifying "give" and "katoni" signifying container (English) — "Mpe katoni".

Locals say that as the landless pilgrims got off the lorries that transported them to the settlement with containers bearing their essentials, the officer-in-control yelped, "Mpe katoni" (provide for him/her the container). "Mpe katoni" later developed to Mpeketoni, the prevalent name of the settlement.

The township is inside the bigger Mpeketoni settlement plan.

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The town has three primary passageway courses and it neighbors Pandanguo Forest to the north. The primary passageway is towards the south east which heads to Lake Kenyatta. An alternate passageway street heads east to Mokowe while the third heads to west to associate with Witu.

Pandanguo Forest is a piece of the broad timberland blanket that joins Boni Wildlife Forest which goes up to Ijara and neighbors Somalia. This is the timberland that the Sunday night aggressors are accepted to have vanished into in the wake of killing 48 individuals.

Mpeketoni, which served as a model for other State conspires in Witu, Hindi and Mokowe is the focal point of Lamu legislative issues because of an expanding populace. By June 1977, the Mpeketoni plan was completely involved with 3,480 settlement plots coating a region of 14,224 hectares, with one pilgrim's distribution averaging 10 sections of land.

Their numbers have developed quickly and as per the 2009 evaluation report, the populace is nearing 50,000 with the age of the second era averaging 37 years of age.

In spite of vicinity of security staff bases in the locale, there was a poor reaction from both police and the military, inspiring open shock.

The assault, which kept going for a long time, did not draw any quick reaction from police and the military staff who arrived more than 10 hours after the first assault on the main police headquarters in the zone.

Shifta War

There are no less than four security bases in the region, with two being army installations, one having a place with the General Service Unit at Mukowe, armed force bases at Hindi and Witu and a National Youth Service preparing organization at Baragoni zone.

Lamu County accomplished the Shifta War, which financially handicapped the range until the late 90s when the administration figured out how to hold the battling.

Somewhere around 1963 and 1967, Kenya battled the Shifta War against Somali inhabitants who looked for union with their kinfolk in the Somali Republic to the north.

The region is relied upon to be on the planet delineate once the Standard Gage Railway is finished.

As of late, it has been in the spotlight with indigenous groups griping that the 2007/8 Internally Displaced Persons were being carried to the zone. Locals requested a quick stop to the onrushing of the IDP.

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