When the country gained independence, Geer and Ucholo began the process of returning to their own land, as they faced significant threats from populations that bordered the areas where they had relocated during the invasion of their lands. Geer first dispatched their Chiefs to meet with elders from their brotherly community Ucholo to discuss how they would return to their land and what strategies they would employ to do so, given that it had been occupied by outsiders who had no interest in uniting themselves with the two largest and landowners. The elders of the two communities agreed to send some elders to the city to express their requests to the persons in charge of the government. The elders were returned in a deplorable manner that angered both communities. They initially planned to pursue the war against Eastern people, but certain elders recommended against it, so they devised various tactics to persuade these people. They were finally allowed to return home after numerous attempts, where they mixed freely with their Eastern brothers and sisters, and some of them were even incorporated into the government. The two sisterly communities were turned against each other in less than ten years. The war began when the Geer paramount chief was assassinated in cold blood by unknown people; however, when the authorities investigated, they discovered that he was murdered by Eastern people who were unhappy with how this chief was leading other chiefs against the bad government of the Eastern People; notwithstanding, they falsely reported to the people that the chief was assassinated by some people from Ucholo whose identities were unknown. After many attempts by elders from both communities to guarantee that the two sisterly communities were at peace, the conflict broke out five days later, but the chief's son refused to listen and carried out a vengeance killing. The two communities placed hands on each other for the first time in history. Hundreds of individuals died on both sides in the first war.After years of warring, people from the East told the two communities that if they didn't want to come together and make peace, they should leave their towns and move their villages. They had no choice but to go because they couldn't agree. The war developed to be huge as livestocks raiding had become the biggest part of it. On several occasions, people almost every week due to the report or maybe youth from either side had raided livestock of either of the two communities. It reached a point where the communities started to claim the ownership of the land and demanded the withdrawal of the other from the land.