As the debate on whether or not President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy, William Ruto, should pull Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) from Somalia to stop the senseless killings of Kenyans by Al Shabaab rages on, it has now emerged that the Government has other missions in Somalia other than decimating Al Shabaab.
This was revealed by the Commander of Somalia National Army (SNA), Yassin Bare Hassan, who is so pissed with KDF’s presence in Somalia. According to Bare, Uhuru/ Ruto’s Government is not interested in killing Al Shabaab but to grab Somali land. He said the Kenyan Government had taken advantage of Somalia’s lawlessness and the Al Shabaab menace to grab their land, that’s why President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy, William Ruto, do not want to withdraw troops from Somalia. “Kenya has taken advantage of many years of Somalia’s lawlessness and encroached on our land.
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More than 2km of Somalia is now illegally inhabited by Kenyans,” said Bare. The land which Kenya allegedly grabbed from Somalia includes a Kenya Police Post in Mandera, the immigration office and customs department. However, Mandera County Commissioner, Alex Ole Nkoyo, denied any land grab from Somalia by Kenya. Besides, Bare accused KDF of collaborating with Al Shabaab in the illegal charcoal business in Somalia saying the Kenyan troops are reluctant to leave Somalia because of the booming charcoal business.“KDF know all the hideouts of Al Shabaab but they have never bombed them because they are partners in the charcoal business,” he said. Bare’s assertions give flesh to Raila Odinga’s demand for the withdrawal of KDF from Somalia as a solution to ending terror attacks in the country. According to Raila, KDF were doing nothing in Somalia but to trade in charcoal with Al Shabaab and often sell guns to them.
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