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25 ex-soldiers go into hiding after Court of Appeal deals them blow

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KDF soldiers patrol Ol-Moran area in Laikipia County on September 12, 2021. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Twenty-five former military officers whose seven years of freedom were on Friday cut short by the Court of Appeal are said to have gone missing.

The ex-soldiers are to be re-arrested after the Court of Appeal in Mombasa nullified the High Court judgment of 2018, which had saved them from serving life imprisonment.

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