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The father of the captured KDF soldier seen in an Al-Shabaab video reveals more about the ordeal

A KDF soldier perceived to be dead after KDF El Adde camp was overturned on by Al-Shabaab militia on January 15, 2016, has resurfaced giving hopes to his family who had already given up on their kin.



Snr Private Alfred Ndanyi Kilasi was on Friday seen in a video clip pleading with President Uhuru Kenyatta, as commander-in-chief of the Kenyan Defence Forces to intervene so that he get released from captivity in Somalia so that he can vote in the forthcoming General Election and join his family members whom he has not seen for a long.

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