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Kenya Defence Forces patrol the streets of Fafadun township, an important trading town as it lies on the main road to Kismayu during the vicious battle to reach Kismayu Port. [PHOTO:GEORGE MULALA/Standard]
Kenya’s former Foreign Affairs minister, Moses Wetang’ula, who is today an opposition senator has asked President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration to end the military incursion in Somalia and “bring the boys back home.”
The call echoes that of his CORD co-principals – ODM’s Raila Odinga and Wiper’s Kalonzo Musyoka— who have insisted that securing the borders and Kenya’s territorial integrity was more important, now that KDF’s mission to cripple al Shabaab has been achieved.
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