How KDF elite squad rescued kidnapped teacher from the Al Shaabab
However, the joint operations resulted to good news when Judy Mutua, an employee of Windle Trust was rescued at Shaba-Difu, 15km in Somalia. Judy Mutua, an employee of Windle Trust and a teacher by profession.
Through a press statement sent to newsrooms, Colonel D O Obonyo: “During the joint rescue operations KDF/RDU/SNA killed one of the abductors while another was arrested. Ms Mutua is currently receiving treatment at a secured location and will be airlifted by the Kenya Air Force to Nairobi in the course of the day.”Mutua, a teacher in one of the secondary schools near Hagadera camp in Daadab Garissa county was abducted On Monday, October 12, 2015 abducted by armed suspected al Shabaab who had concealed their identity.
The militiamen attacked the car that Mutua was in. She was in a private car with a Somalia nationality driver heading to the camp when the armed men started shooting the vehicle.
The criminals took control of the vehicle, drove it a few kilometers from the scene location, abandon it together with the driver before vanishing with the teacher in a waiting car.
Al-Shabaab militia group have terrorised Kenyans with numerous attacks since KDF was deployed in Somalia. It is reported that the group has intensified it’s operations in the country with numerous recruitment drives.
Speaking at Kahawa Barracks on Wednesday, October 14 during KDF celebration day, Samson Mwathethethe, the Chief of KDF said that the group is currently targeting youth.
“This means that all of us, especially parents, must take an active role and work with school administrators to ensure that our children are not radicalised and recruited into the group. As we fight terror, let us not forget that the evolution of social media as a result of technological advancements has posed new challenges. Our children are exposed to messages loaded with extremist ideologies meant to radicalise their minds,” Mwathethethe warned.SOURCE: Tuko.co.ke
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