Mandera residents are determined to avoid a repeat of the 2014 Al Shabaab murder of 36 quarry workers in the county. [File]
On December 22, 2015, Salah Sabdow Farah was shot as he shielded fellow Kenyans, non-Muslims, from being killed by Al Shabaab who had attacked their bus as they travelled from Nairobi to Mandera. The teacher died a month later.