Government should not surrender to terrorists says Musalia Mudavadi

NAIROBI: The government should not surrender to terrorists threats by abandoning its primary role of protecting citizens, Amani leader Musalia Mudavadi has said.

Mudavadi said for government to say they don’t have security officers to guard institutions to abscond our cardinal duty of providing security to Kenyans.

“The reckless message we sending Kenyans is that they are on their own, and to the terrorists that they have won”, he said in a statement.

“In fact, I am opposed to closure of the Garissa University College or any use change. Garissa County needs the university. We must be confident, return it to its status as a university and even 147 University as a monument of our struggle against terror. Erasing it from memory is cowardly”, he added.

Mudavadi was reacting to media reports that the government has closed Garissa Teachers Training College and Garissa Medical College for lack of ability to guard them.

“It amounts to surrender of territory to an invading force. The government has to be careful not to give impression it is pulling out of North-eastern and surrendering the area to Al-Shabaab”, he warned

He said the attack in Wajir town today maybe a result of an emboldened terror group sensing government has surrendered.

“An army on retreat is fair play to the enemy. We should not ever give the impression that we are defeated. Let’s not tell them they have won”, he said.

Meanwhile, thanking the president for embarking of integration scrip, the former deputy premier encouraged the president not to relent in appointing more Kenyans from diverse area into government.

“The route he has taken is what all Kenyans expect of their leader. We have only one country and we encourage him not to backtrack diversifying appointments”, he said.