Even as the country still comes to terms with
last week’s attack on Kenya Defence Forces
(KDF) base in Kulbiyow, where dozens of KDF
soldiers were killed, it has now emerged that
one of the soldiers who perished in the attack
had escaped from a similar attack last year by a
whisker.
Corporal Moses Mwakio, 40, was among those who survived the El Adde attack
last year where more than 173 soldiers were killed by Al Shabaab terrorists.
According to his wife Debra, Mwakio’s assignment to Kulbiyow was his third
after being dispatched to Somalia in 2012 and 2015 to pursue the militants.
She said she spoke with her husband on Wednesday, 2 days before the attack,
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