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By Hassan Omar Hassan
It only happens in what was formerly referred to the North Eastern Province! Some of the counties of the former Northern Frontier District (NFD). Abjectly marginalised and neglected. Tortured and killed at will. Can you imagine three Kenya Defence Forces soldiers killed in Nyeri or Kiambu? Then soldiers ‘march’ through the town burning markets, looting from the poor, destroying their livelihoods, torturing the population in ‘vengeance’ and leaving a trail of destruction and death. And the Defence Minister hails from that county. Can you imagine this happening in Kiambu when the late Njenga Karume was Defence Minister? It only happens in North Eastern Province!
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