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I was sacrificed, sacked General tells House team

Lieutenant General (rtd) Johnson Ondieki during the vetting. He has been nominated to be the Kenyan ambassador to Turkey. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s ambassadorial nominee to Turkey Lieutenant General (rtd) Johnson Ondieki has broken his silence over his dismissal as South Sudan peacekeeping commander.

Since his sacking in November 2016, a situation that saw Kenya order its troops off the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNIMISS) following the disagreement, Ondieki told the committee he was sacrificed to cover up systematic failure.

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