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Politicians will no longer use military helicopters, Duale says

Defence CS Aden Duale (right) says KDF helicopters will no longer be available for use by politicians. [File, Standard]

The Department of Defence has moved to stop the misuse of military helicopters by politicians.

The Standard has established that unregulated use of military aircraft by non-security teams has left key security operations to depend on few helicopters putting to question their maintenance after some crashed in the recent past.

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