Create a fall back plan.

It is now close to six years since the Operation Linda Nchi started in 16^th October 2011 when we released our soldiers to Somalia to fight the enemy who had threatened our security. It has been a long battle characterized by both tears and laughter from our soldiers and the entire nation of Kenya. Our soldiers in AMISOM have done and are still doing a tremendous job that they deserve a pat on their back. 

However the recent attack in El Adde in Somalia which has left many of our brothers sisters friends relatives and even friends dead and scores injured, has left the country in grief and utter shock. The silence by the government to the relatives of the soldiers has even increased the pain ten folds because we are left in the dark without knowing the fate of our loved ones.

The government and the entire security team should come up with a fall back plan for our soldiers to return back home and secure our borders. The mission is already complete and we need them to secure our country by being deployed within our boarders and not in Somalia. The Commander In Chief should liaise with various security organs and adopt a plan in which our heroes will come back home and enjoy the peace in their mother land Kenya. The best advice is where we withdraw our soldiers and wait for the insurgents to attack our country and that’s when we respond by pushing them far away from our country. 

RIP to our heroes who paid the ultimate price.

By; Biwott k. Edwin

Tears of a Mother

A mother is crying because she has lost a husband or a son, children are crying and mourning the loss of a brother sister or even their father, a community is crying because their son and hero has died in the hands of an enemy, the whole country is mourning because of the loss of a whole troop of gallant soldiers, heroes and heroines who dedicated their life to serve the nation. These are our friends and also family members and the loss of one make a whole village grief and mourn in pain.

Tears of pain

The government should not prolong these tears a day more by withholding the sad news from the grieving families. It is better for them to give the information to the family members for them to cry once and for all rather than keeping them in agony about the dead of their loved ones and also in great anticipation that their sons or relatives maybe alive. 

It is so painful and agonizing to watch in our televisions and also read on our dailies about how stressed these families are in search of their loved ones. The thought of sleeping overnight without your husband and adding pain to injury is having in mind that you will never see him; it is only the wife who knows such.

By; Biwott k. Edwin