BY ADOW JUBAT
Mandera Governor Ibrahim Roba has urged on both residents
and non-residents to put stay and avoid being intimidated by criminals who desperately what to
create despondency and inter community hate in the country.
He said by terrorism all over the
world has been using tricks that set different communities and faith against
each other so that they establish support that will see them infiltrate more
and get audience for their ill motives. “Terrorists groups have done this other
parts of Africa and Middle East and as Kenyans we must remained steadfast to
defeat them” he added.
The Governor said al- Shabaab
has established secret terror cells in Mandera where they have been carrying
out incessant attacks who victims cuts across peoples’ faiths persuasions and
tribe noting that other civil servants killed in the town includes chiefs and
police reservists who are from the local community.
“When this terrorist has failed to
intimidate us with their reckless grenade attacks and their actions got
repeated condemnations from majority of the local people they have now resorted
to dangerous attempts of introducing inter religion and community hate” he
explained.
The governor noted that Muslims and
the members of the local communities had also suffered under the hand of
terrorists citing an example where twelve police officers were killed in
Mandera last year of which nine of them he noted were locals.
“My own life has been attempted four
times within Mandera town after remote controlled grenades were placed on my
way to my office, that is a clear indication that terrorist are out on a
dangerous agenda of putting our country into the league of the Somalia, where
they destroyed before liberated by gallant military, “ Said the visibly
disturbed Roba.
He noted that his administration is
working closely with the national government to ensure that sufficient security
were provided to all Kenyans living in the County, he however called on people
to support their tirelessly efforts to ensure the al-Shabaab were crashed once
and for all.
Governor Roba called on over 300
panic stricken civil servant now taking refuge at Mandera military camp for
fear of their security following the grisly weekend attack that claimed lives
of 28 people after a Nairobi bound bus was attacks by al-Shabaab militia to be
patient as security continued to be heightened along the Mandera-Wajir High way
and at residential places during the day and night.
He said mass evacuation of
some of Kenyans from the county for fear of security will negatively impact on the
country’s security situation adding that Mandera Country is facing an acute
shortage of teachers and medical staff even with presences of those now planning
to leave them.
“If we panic and provide military choppers
to evacuate people demands, then it will be falling in the trap of terrorists
group who will be proud of sending despondency among our people who should have
been protected from any form of harm anywhere within our country’s borders. The
move will also send a negative image on the international community that Kenya
is no longer safe from terrorists’ attacks”,
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