Kenyan Government urged to compensate families of fallen soldiers of El-Adde attack

Kenyan government was called to compensate the families of fallen soldiers in last month’s El-Adde attacked which Al-Shabab claimed to have killed over fifty soldiers.

Trans Mara leaders led Chief Officer in Charge of Public Service Leboo Morintat have visited the home of Officer Elias Kirionki who perished in the Al-Shabab attack in Somalia.

“We appeal to the government to continue paying salaries of soldiers and other officers who die while defending our country as a way of consoling their families,” Morintat said.

He added “This will also motivate their colleagues to be patriotic in defending our country from external and internal aggression.”

A relative to Kirionki  accused the government of keeping families of the bereaved soldiers in the dark since the El Adde attack, which left them in agony.

“We are calling on the government to look for better ways of handling similar occurrences in future. Members of the bereaved families kept looking for information on the whereabouts of their kin, instead of the government keeping them updated which is very wrong,” Dominic Taama said.

On 15th January this year dozens of people died in an attack launched by AlShabab group against a Kenyan base of the African Union Mission to Somalia, (AMISOM) in the Gedo region, near the border with Kenya.

The group claimed responsibility for the attack and said that 60 Kenyan soldiers were killed, while AMISOM, which confirmed the incident, has not yet provided any toll.