A Kenyan Member of Parliament (MP) has been apprehended a day after the government warned that it would arrest leaders alleged to be inciting violence in Laikipia county.

Matthew Lempurkel, the member of parliament of Laikipia North, the constituency where British rancher Tristan Voorspuy was killed by armed herders on Sunday, is expected to record a statement about the on-going violence:

According to Ceoafrica, an on-going drought has driven pastoralists to move into private farms to find pasture for their animals.

But analysts say that local leaders are inciting armed herders to invade the farms and it was gathered that a security operation is currently under way in the area.