Security personnel has been urged to ensure that they take due precautionary measures while attending to operations so as to protect civilians, especially women and young children.
Speaking on Saturday during the closing event of a three-day training workshop for military focal persons for human rights cluster in Somalia, Shadrack Mutacho noted that the current involvements of military in Somalia and parts of North Eastern counties should strive to act within the provisions of human rights.
Mutacho called on the Amisom officers and the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to ensure accountability, transparency and take responsibility for their actions while acting within the confines of their professional laws of conduct.
"The modern day military has to comply with the existing laws. When it comes to gender concerns, women and children are deemed to be more vulnerable groups and therefore in whatever we do, we ought to ensure that these groups are protected,” noted Mutacho.