Shocking details have emerged of a big corruption scandal within the police service that led to the delay of the deployment of the elite Recce Squad to Garissa University to save more lives during the unfortunate Al Shabaab attack.
Details of communication within the National Police Service reveals exactly why Recce got stranded at Wilson Airport for several hours even after having been on standby from as early as 6.30 am.
The secret communication shows that one of the police aircrafts, a Cessna 208B registration number 5YPOL, which was to take Recce Squad to Garissa had flown to Mombasa on a private and non-police mission contrary to the law which prohibits a police aircraft from being deployed to private or civilian engagements unless it is an emergency.
According to the authorization sheet at the Kenya Police Air Wing, the police plane was fraudulently hired to a Nairobi businessman to do his private business in Mombasa by a senior police officer in the police service.
The Recce Commandos got stranded at Wilson Airport and were forced to wait for hours for the businessman to finish his stuff in Mombasa and fly back to Nairobi before they could use the plane to rescue students in Garissa.
Although there was another air craft – registration 5Y-COP - at the airport on that fateful morning, Recce Squad could not use it to fly to Garissa to save lives because the GSU Commandant, Joel Kitili, and his team were to use it to fly to Baringo for an operation following cattle raids that had occurred the previous day.
The delay in deployment of Recee Unit led to the massacre of 147 students by the merciless Al Shabaab militants.
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