President Uhuru Kenyatta has yet again been challenged to withdraw Kenyan soldiers from neighboring Somalia and to put measures to guard the country’s porous borders.
This comes a day after three police men were killed in Mandera by people suspected to be members of Al Shabaab militia group.
A US based scholar Dr Evans Magare who lectures in the University of Yale (diplomacy and international relations) has said overstaying in Somalia was the reason why the country was facing a series of unwarranted attacks from the terror group.
“I want to make it clear that the challenges we are facing in security as a nation are actually our own creation. We had a mission in Somalia and we somehow managed to achieve our objectives of weakening Al Shabaab. However, I am really disappointed that our soldiers have continued to stay in the county, making the terror group to launch its terror activities in our own soil,” he said.
According to him, Kenyan soldiers should be withdrawn from Somalia and be stationed within the porous borders to combat the terrorism.
“Withdrawing soldiers from Somalia isn’t a sign of weakness. We have to deploy those soldiers along our borders to prevent the terrorists from attacking us,” he added.
He said that insecurity challenge was likely to continue until Kenyan soldiers are withdrawn and deployed along the Kenya-Somalia border even as KDF Chief Gen Samson Mwathethe insisted recently that the soldiers were in Somalia.