House team set to probe attack on KDF
Four bodies of KDF soldiers killed in Somalia being received in Nairobi by Defence Secretary Raychelle Omamo and top military officers on January 18, 2016. PHOTO | FRED MUKINDA | NATION MEDIA GROUP
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Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations chairman Ndung’u Gethenji said the investigation would run parallel to the one being conducted by the KDF.
MPs are planning to investigate the deadly attack on a KDF camp in Somalia and the country’s role in the African Union mission.
Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations chairman Ndung’u Gethenji said Tuesday the investigation would run parallel to the one being conducted by the Kenya Defence Forces.
Parliament will be inquiring into the events leading to the attack in which KDF soldiers were killed when their camp was overran by suspected Al-Shabaab militants.
OVERSIGHT ROLE
The Tetu MP said the committee has the parliamentary oversight duty to investigate the attack even as the military carries out its own inquiry.
He said this would help in appreciating the challenges that KDF was facing in taking the lead role in the peacekeeping mission in Somalia.
“We want to see a debate brought to the floor of Parliament where we will debate and come up with a position regarding Kenya taking a lead role in liberating Somalia,” said Mr Gethenji at Muthinga trading centre in Tetu during a meeting on a community water project.
He said the operation had achieved significant gains, but time had come to “rethink and relook at the challenges”.
