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State must equip officers to stop IED killings

Last Saturday, 11 GSU officers on patrol in Liboi, Garissa County, were killed.

The Kenya-Somalia border is increasingly becoming risky for our security officers. Although the security agencies have made major strides in the fight against al-Shabaab, which have greatly reduced the number of attacks by the terror group within Kenyan borders, cases of police officers and reservists losing their lives while on patrol along the border are becoming a little too frequent.

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