It’s a shame that after years of neglect, NEP is still corner of doom and gloom

The massacre of 28 Kenyans in Mandera County last Saturday, brought tears of shame and bitterness to me. Shame of being a Kenyan. In the 1980s, I had the privilege of working in Garissa County as a correspondent for the Nation Media Group and a reporter with the Kenya News Agency (KNA). My tour of duty took me across Wajir, Mandera, Dadaab, Kismayu and deep into Somali and Ethiopian territory.

In those days, filing a story was a dramatic affair. I would “beg” either the military or the Administration Police officers to allow me use their radio transmitters to talk to copy takers in Nairobi. I would also make reverse calls from the only two telephone booths in Garissa.