Nairobi - A Kenyan herder pleaded not
guilty on Tuesday after being charged with the murder of a
British man in the east African country's northern region last
month.
Tristan Voorspuy, a British military veteran who ran a
safari company in Kenya, was shot dead at a private ranch in the
drought-stricken Laikipia region.
He had gone to the ranch to inspect the remains of a
friend's home that had been burnt down by herders days earlier.
There have been numerous attacks in Laikipia in recent
months as armed cattle herders searching for scarce grazing have
driven tens of thousands of cattle onto private farms and
ranches. At least a dozen people have been killed.
"I have not killed anyone" said Samson Lokayi after a
murder charge was read to him and translated in local Swahili
language at a high court in Nanyuki town in northern Kenya.
Lokayi applied for bail but the judge, Mary Kasanga, ordered
that he remain in jail pending determination of his application.