₦airaland Forum

africaken254:
nairobi at the moment the ministry of water and nairobi county want to drill boreholes around nairobi due to the ongoing drought and shortage of water in nairobi,there is so much water that is lost as it flows to the Indian ocean during rainy seasons.when even our rivers are over flowing.if we could build dams,especially in arid areas like they did in ukambani regions and educate the locals on ways to utilise the water in irrigation,we wouldn't be hearing cases of hunger and livestock deaths as we are hearing at the moment.so much water is wasted which could be used to grow animal feed ,to be stored to feed livestocks during dry seasons

speaking of which, at the mouth of the ocean on a certain coast in Malindi where river galana/tana/sabaki meets the ocean, the water usually turns brown because fresh water empties into the indian ocean.... There was a time a hippo and a crocodile had to be killed after it swam too far into the sea

http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2013/07/30/malindi-kws-rangers-kill-hippo-at-beach_c809403

they have national holidays to celebrate the army? wow!

africaken254:
its raining in nairobi,heavily.relief from the ongoing drought,but nobody is seriously thinking about how we can harvest that water

its not like we don't havest at all, there are several dams outside Nairobi where the water ends up bieng retained for hydro and these places have water treatment too.... I know for a fact that my hometown at the coast thete is a water treatment plant a few kilometers interior where they get their water from same river that flown from up stream from highlands in central kenya, if folks from central weer to retain that water, then folks in nairobi do the same, that river wouldnt be flowing downstream by now... each big town downstteam has a mini dam that takes alitle water and lets the rest flow downstream.

this water does flow down to coast but alot of folks depend on this water flowing downstream for farming and other uses... remember the other day the gobernment was building a water catchment dam and it became a national issue because other folks opposed to it were saying other comminities down stream will have rivers drying up.....

I think the most important thing Kenya should give priority is distribution, we should invest in massive pipeping and interconnect water supplies all over the country instead of what exist now where each former manucipal has is own supply system.... it should be possible to supply water feom nairobi to mombasa, or from isiolo to turkana or garissa, that way a region that has water can supply to semi-desert and desert areas.... only then will water stop bieng a problem, then it would be easier to massively harvest water because it wouldnt matter where its havested because eventually everyone in the country will have access to it

Odunayaw:
is that a cow or a diagram

That is a cow about to be eaten by that cop staring at it, he's like "am not gonna let you suffer like this, its me or you boi"

ActivateKruger:
Do you think the Armed Forces Day parades would go on, Durban could get soaking wet this weekend.

You guys are having cyclones down south while drought is raping us dry .. fu(king global warming

africaken254:
those who think our soldiers lack empathy on those they are fighting for (civilians)how many times have shown kenyan and nigerian soldiers providing relief food,free medical,building schools,drilling bore holes e.t.c

Or letting them enjoy the joys of peace

Patchesagain:
He is, for once, correct.

Food/Clothing Aid has destroyed small-scale farmers and textile markets.

Drought and natural disaster usually help in development,

Take drought for example: good/clever farmers are often in a better position than others during a time of crisis. Hence can sell their wares at higher prices (decrease in supply, increase in demand), thus they generate more capital. Because the drought has slaughtered the competition, and killed people themselves you now have an increased supply of land and a decreased demand to occupy it. Hence these surviving farmers are able to use the capital they generated earlier to buy the land of the farmers who have failed... expanding their operation, increasing their output and thus the cycle starts over - they generate more capital and use the capital to aquire more land to generate more capital. In a couple generations large scale commercial farms (though lacking sophistication) begin to arise.

Food aid destroys this natural cycle.

[PS: Look into the ANC's drought relief from last year and see if you can figure out what they are doing.]

The European renaissance, for example, was only possible because of the Black Death.

You are being sacharstic right?
in any case, you should donate your brain for scientific research when you kick it (the bucket)

So the US bans everything russia because of "ukraine" among other things, exept for one thing they really need and cant do without....

did you know that the russian rocket engines RD-180 is used by 90% of countries with space rockets because they are the only most powerful engines capable,tested and proven to reach high altitude orbit

http://www.spacedaily.com/m/reports/Why_Washington_cannot_why_Russias_RD_180_rocket_engines_999.html

http://tass.com/science/915840

the US congress banned there importation but after 7month s they realised US space program couldint survive without them....

How I wish russia's economy starts to grow again, Thier engineering marvels are out of this world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g1TQ0J9Y50

bluejean:
I was hoping sum1 will mention it. I was not talking abt d beard(dts cos i kw its makeup) bt his bony structure. He does look sickly

eer! Thats how thin people look like, I meanhave you seen wiz khalifa especially when he was just starting out?

Anyway, in his comedy stunts he did try to go to the gym ... it didnt pan out
watch the video from 1:40


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3H8saXKV_Q

Bujumbura:
This Adam no follow at all. If this one see Serpent e go chop am before the serpent go give Eve fruit

Is it true there is no guy with Six packs in Kenya because I've been watching them in Olympics

So by your own logic. If you were a rugby 7s fan... everyguy in kenya is miscly with six pack?

KunmiHuston:
They don't really look nice in the photo shoot, maybe I'm just being myopic!

Olubukola16:
The lady is very beautiful but the guy looks hunger-stricken and so unattractive . The bushy beards of a thing is a no no, I don't like guys that are unkempt. At least, look good even if you're not handsome, it's your body, take good care of it!

bluejean:
dah z a very nice observation

i was hoping one of you would notice... its called make up, its not an actual beard.... look him up on youtube, the guy can transform himself into anything
like here, he made himself look like tanzanias president

Odunayaw:
police on patrol are the GSUs or the ordinary cops?

They are the paramilitary wing of the police. The green capes suggest they are Administration Police(AP).. GSU wear similar camo with red berret

africaken254:
kenyan police counter attack during an ambush using VN-4 APC and dismounted policemen

No ballistic vest on the frontlines!

Vikkie14:
We are almost at a million Views. Someone should kindly remind us when the view get to 1million.
Egypt
Pic 1: Mistral-class AAS
pic 2: Navy Submersible
Pic 3: A Gowind-class Corvette

Not to forget we are nearing a thousand pages.....

British BPST teach KDF how to set up an Asymmetrical Warfare FOB

He added that introduction of a modern FOB is one way of minimising casualties especially in the ongoing fight against following recent Al Shabaab attacks.

When Kenya Defence CS(Minister) Raychelle Omamo visited Kismayu

https://theimagehost.net/upload/caaa53ef3a22b810f698e8f5f6505823.jpg

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africaken254:

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnGKL31nS2U

Seems the one 100% proof way to kill a VBIED is to make sure it never gets assembled in the first place....
KDF long range suveilance units and other specOps units should be tasked with specific missions to hunt down bomb makers or underground IED factories .... because IEDs and VBIED are somethings you wanna avoid completely, they have the power to take out a whole unit in one moment..

look at the trees

ActivateKruger:
Terror and all kinds of insurgencies are intelligence not military issues. When a country has homegrown terrorism issues it simply means they have no solid intelligence institutions.

As for Al-Shabab, they can't go beyond Kenya. Southern Africa is a different region. Islam is rare and state intelligence is on a different level.

Intelligence inside Kenya used to be a big problem but not of late, and even in the past when attacks used to happen on kenyan soil very frequently, its not that there was not intelligence, its because the NIS used to just hand oit dossiers and brief to the police (this was after the NIS was stripped off powers and their only job was to gather intelligence and hand it over to police) the police use to read it and see nothing specific (like an attack will happen in the city in june on a school -no specific date or which school)
but this largly changed after the head of military intelligence who had been dealing with alshabaab in somalia was made head of NIS, and all departments dealling with Counter terrorisn CT were brought together to work as one unit when responding to local terrorism, that means NIS can gather intelligence then use paramilitary specOps to carry out raids without having to deal with lots of beaurocracy....



About intelligence in somali through military intelligence, that has never been a problem, if you look at it, every attack on a KDF camp, there has always been prior intelligence on imminent attack, what happened in el-adde was just poor response and bad call from the officer in charge.....
There are always reorts of prior intelligence on almost all attacks by alshabaab, just yesterday alshabaab executed 2 of its members for spying for Kenya and Somalia......

even an account from the commander of Kulbiyow camp gives you details of prior intelligence ..

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Major Denis Girenge, the commander of the Kenya Defence Forces camp at Kulbiyow that was attacked by Al-Shabaab on January 27 has for the first time given a blow-by-blow account of the battle against the estimated 1,000 militants.
The major, whose narrative was backed by footage shot by a drone that the military showed to the Sunday Nation, said a day earlier he received a call from an officer based at the Hulugho camp manned by KDF soldiers, who reported strange movements about 12km away that they suspected were Al-Shabaab militants.
“We concluded that they were planning to attack either my camp or Hulugho because from that point, we were 14km away while Hulugho was 18 kilometres away,” said Major Girenge.
He added: “I decided to send out a patrol at night, 5km north of my position so that they could spot an enemy approaching.
"At 6 pm I called my men and briefed them. We reconfigured our defence to replace the men who had gone out.”
At 3am one of the sentries informed him about some movements, like a heavy vehicle was moving.
Major Girenge estimated it was 8km away.
“After some minutes the movement stopped and there was none at all. We decided we should call surveillance guys.
"We had tried to call the locals to ask if they had spotted anything but none of their phones were going through,” he said.
The surveillance team at Hulugho dispatched Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, better known as drones, for the surveillance mission.
The drones were airborne within 10 minutes and from his command centre at the camp, the Major was monitoring images relayed from the skies.
“At around 3.30am I saw a sizable group in a bush, about 80 guys and it’s like they were receiving a briefing. We got the grid and laid our weapons including mortars and hit the place,” said Major Girenge.
THE ATTACK
It disrupted their meeting and they all rose and started running towards the camp.
“We were about 4km away. We could see them from the drone images.
"We kept on hitting but the group kept on increasing and we established that many other people had crept in, in groups during the day and were hiding in the bushes,” added Major Girenge.
At that point he called his commander in Manda and informed him that the numbers of the attackers was increasing by the minute despite the relentless firing.
The group then stopped at a village called Bulaqoqon, which is about 1.5 kilometres from the camp, and started marching towards the camp after about 10 minutes.
“At this point their number was a thousand plus. But before they began moving again, they all bowed to the ground and started praying.
"We could see all that from the drone. We hit them at that point and they started moving,” Major Girenge said.
By 5.15am the group was 800 metres away from the camp’s first line of defence positions.
“I ordered my men to open their small arms, and start hitting them. All this time they had not fired back. Until about 5.45am they fired the first shot.
"So I reported to CO (commanding officer) that we have established contact. My commander told me he has already scrambled aircrafts and they would be taking off,” said the major.
He went on: “The battle was on and everybody was busy. One soldier called me on radio and his exact words were Afande iko VBIEDs zinakuja, (Sir there are Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devices approaching).”
A VBIED is simply a bomb on wheels.
“I told him to engage 84 mm calibre weapon which we use to destroy heavy vehicles. He fired and it exploded outside.
"The explosion was so massive and that changed the scenario. It created a gap and suicide bombers followed,” said Major Girenge.
The explosion created a massive impact because fragments were felt in a radius of 200 meters.
FAKE PHOTOS
Another two VBIEDS approached the camp but they never penetrated the defence lines after they were taken out by high calibre weapons.
“The explosion was massive and I believe that is what led to the number of casualties we sustained,” added Major Girenge.
Sitting on a bench outside his ward at the Defence Forces Memorial Hospital in Nairobi, he continued to narrate the events without batting an eyelid.
The battle-hardened soldier has fought in Somalia starting with his time at the rank of Captain.
He was in Kismayu in 2012 and the company he was leading had also taken Fafadun from Al-Shabaab in the same year.
Col Kenneth Mungai answers questions during an interview with Nation at Defence Forces Memorial Hospital in Nairobi on February 4, 2017. PHOTO | ANTHONY OMUYA | NATION MEDIA GROUP
At 6.15am one of the pilots called him to say that he was getting into the aircraft and would be overhead in 30 minutes.
“At 7;45 am I heard the first choppers overhead. By 7am all guns were silent and I could hear a few remnants shouting as they pulled their bodies and run away.
"I called Army operations to say firing had ceased and we are consolidating and asked choppers to come in and help casualties,” added Mjr Girenge.
By 9am rescue helicopters had come and I was among the first to be airlifted.
He sustained gunshot wounds on his left arm, legs and lower abdomen.
Asked about the contradicting reports that the camp was overrun, the major burst out in laughter.
“I was at the camp until the last minute. If it was overrun I would not be here right now talking to you. I would be somewhere dead.
"We defended the camp to the last minute. It is Al-shabaab who ran away,” he said.
Regarding images posted by Al-Shabaab terrorist and their sympathisers, showing burning military tanks, he added.
“There were no tanks at Kolbiywo so those images are from somewhere else. They left immediately the aircrafts started firing.
"If anybody would have withdrawn from that camp, it would have fallen. We would be having a different story today.
"The only people who were out are those who were on patrol. I have since established they are well,” said Mjr Girenge.
STILL ALIVE
There were also claims that the command had fallen and the commanding officer either dead or taken prisoner by Shabaab.
He said: “I am the OC (Officer Commanding) and so claims that I died, that I went with Shabaab should not even be considered. I am right here.”
The Major, together with another officer of equal rank, and three Captains, commanded a total of 250 soldiers at the camp.
The core unit, comprised of the C-Company of the 15 KR based at Mariakani.
Other supporting units were Battery Pac Howitzer (artillery battery that specialises in heavy weapons), Section mortars and Engineers.
The team was deployed to Somalia on December 28, last year.
Official KDF reports shows 21 personnel died.
The initial report said nine KDF personnel were killed and the senior medical officer at the military hospital Col (Dr) Kenneth Mungai said 12 others died while undergoing treatment.
He added: “We received 44 personnel with injuries. Most of them were bullet injuries. We have since discharged 20 of them. So we still have others in hospital. Most of them required surgery.”
Major Girenge dismissed the Al-Shabaab propaganda figure of more than 50 dead as the usual terrorists’ trick of “blowing things out of proportion”.
Major Girenge is ready to go back to Somalia after leaving hospital.
The narrative given to the Sunday Nation was backed by drone footage that the military said gave a true picture of the events.
Major Girenge came back with a souvenir that will forever remind him of the war.
It is his smart phone with a bullet hole right through the middle.
Corporal Amani Ramadhan, another battle hardened soldier saw four of his men go down.
He was the section commander and in charge at the first line of defence.
“We were well prepared, the defence was organised. This was not a surprise because we had information. In terms of equipment we were prepared,” said Corporal Ramadhan.
Corporal Amani Ramadhan speaks to the Nation at Defence Forces Memorial Hospital in Nairobi on February 4, 2017. He saw four of his men go down. PHOTO | ANTHONY OMUYA | NATION MEDIA GROUP
RELENTLESS SOLDIERS
When the first VBIED arrived at 6am, he ordered the men under his command to shoot the driver.
“The aim was to kill the driver and unfortunately we were not able to. After two minutes there was a heavy and loud explosion and it suddenly became dark like the night.
"All trees around were uprooted. I was only 30 metres away. I think I was the first victim. I lost a finger,” he said.
He, however, continued fighting along with a colleague he identifies as Sergeant Asiz, who was firing using a mounted machine gun.
“He told me he had fired the last bullet in the belt. I gave him another belt. He was shot as he loaded it. But he stood up and went on.
"He fired again before he was shot thrice. Then Corporal Mwakio was using an M4 and I told him to drop it and take over at the machine gun. He spotted another VBIED,” said Cpl Ramadhan.
He went on: “I told him to shoot the driver because if they came closer we would die. He shot the target and it exploded at a good distance. There was a third VBIED and it took another direction.”
Unfortunately Corporal Mwakio was also shot thrice and fell.
Two men were left with him Private Nguyo and Corporal Ouma who from their positions they were not able to take the machine gun.
They also died in battle.
As the Corporal lay still injured, he saw Al-shabaab fighters load bodies of their dead fighters on two lorries.
He estimates more than 200 bodies were loaded on trucks.
“At no time was the camp overran. They ran away. If it was overran then we would not be here. Rescue aircraft were able to land. To me in my estimate we killed over 200.”
“The bodies were piled until the lorries were full. Those are the only ones I saw but there were other,” said Corporal Ramadhan.
brave soldiers fought their last battle - VIDEOThe only people who were out are those who were on patrol. I have since established they are well,” said Mjr Girenge.

Henry24o:
I agree with all you posted, but in the mean time, what about digging trenches? As well as the Hesco walls, the KDF has to look into digging trenches to slow down the attackers.

Also digging trenches for the AML-90s, this would limit the risk of hitting the IFVs, while providing good line of sight to hit the attackers.

after the first attack lessons should have been learnt

its only now that they want solutions
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KDF spokesman Lt Col Paul Njuguna said personnel and equipment consolidation was effectively undertaken during the visit.
“Troops on the ground embarked on restoring the innovative tactical defence to address the threat posed by vehicle-bound explosive devices (VBIED),” he said
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http://kenyannews.co.ke/2017/01/31/kenya-top-military-officers-visit-kulbiyow-camp-after-al-shabaab-attack/amp/

asumo12:
Good news from Kenya!

laplace19:
Something good just happened in Kenya.
Praise the Lord!!

emmabest2000:
Glory be to the Almighty God .
This is the first good news I read about Kenya since I join NL

Meanwhile somewhere in China .....

asumo12:
Good news from Kenya!

emmabest2000:
Glory be to the Almighty God .
This is the first good news I read about Kenya since I join NL

Meanwhile somewhere in China .....

lots of good things happen in kenya, but on NL, such things dont sell especially on FP.
..

people respond to wierd bizzare news.......






examples of good things from kenya you wont find on FP...



KNH doctors separate conjoined twins in 23-hour surgery
By Jeckonia Otieno | Wednesday, Nov 2nd 2016 at 21:35
KNH and UoN School of Health Sciences medical team operating on conjoined twins blessing and Favour. (Photo: Courtesy)
Surgeons at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) have successfully separated conjoined twins in a 23-hour operation.
The girls, named Blessing and Favour, were born in September 2014.
The surgery, which ended in the wee hours of Wednesday, took two years of meticulous planning due to the complex nature of the areas shared by the twins. The girls were joined at the lower back.
The complicated procedure, which began on Tuesday, involved a team of 58 professionals. Acting KNH CEO Thomas Mutie said this was the most complex procedure to be done successfully in sub-Saharan Africa apart from South Africa.
"I am humbled by the success and importance of this event. The twins were born in Meru and referred to KNH where they were admitted to the surgical unit," said Dr Mutie.
Mutie said he visited the twins in the morning and they were doing well.
The surgical team was led by paediatric surgeon Fred Kambuni. Dr Kambuni said due to the manner in which the twins were conjoined, various teams had to work together to ensure the separation was successful.
"The two girls were born through normal delivery and it was realised they were conjoined. When they were brought here, we studied them for a whole year - we had planning meetings and looked at images, including three dimensional prints," said Kambuni.
Surgery began first on paper before it was actualised, the doctor said. The procedure will be followed by rehabilitation until the twins get well. This is expected to take another year.
The whole process was slowed down by the realisation that the girls, who were joined mainly on the lower end, shared some vital parts of the body. For instance, they had different guts up to the rectum but shared the anus and genitals.
Utmost care
"There will be reconstruction of these shared areas," Kambuni said.
Nimrod Mwangombe, the head of neurosurgery at University of Nairobi (UoN) and who was part of the team, said the back area and the urogenital system were stuck and required a lot of precision and utmost care.
"Now that the separation has been done, plastic surgeons will come in to restore the areas that were operated on," said Prof Mwangombe.
This is not the first case of conjoined twins that KNH has handled. However, according to Kambuni, it is the most complex but successful case.
"Others came but they were complex mainly because there were shared organs. In other cases, one of the twins has been a parasite such that even separating them would be difficult," explained Kambuni.
With the children spending about 700 days at the hospital, accommodation alone would have cost Sh10.5 million. Equipment would have cost Sh25 million while professional charges would have amounted to about Sh70 million.
The bill will be paid by KNH and the National Hospital Insurance Fund.
Journalists highlighted the girls' case on August 4, 2014, and they were transferred to KNH.https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/mobile/article/2000221961/knh-doctors-separate-conjoined-twins-in-23-hour-surgery



more pics here https://www.tuko.co.ke/220769-heartwarming-photos-delicate-operation-separate-conjoined-twins-kenyatta-nat.html




-----the surjery was done and led by kenyan doctors in a government public hospital, other doctors came from Unicersity of nairobi school of medicin, meaning the doctors were not foreign trained, they went to school locally meaning the knowledge and experience can easily be passed on to others and the next generation of doctors

Bsmartt:
I thank God for the life for the boy. Meanwhile, it's high time that the Kenyan doctors called off their selfish strike. Who knows what could have happened if their are no specialists in the private hospitals in Kenya. #lifeisbeautiful

even after bieng offered a salary higher than other civil servants they refused to budge....
they want training facilities to be built so doctors can have continious training (refresher course)
1000 doctors to be hired each year from the next 10years.
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overtime allowance....etc

while all those demands is whats best for everyone if they were all met, the doctors seemed to have forgoten their most important oath

...

Tinfoil:
They are only building it for 30km of the 700km long border which makes it useless

the 30km stretch was hastened to protect mandera whose town center is just few hundred meters from the border... this happened after an attack at a rental house......... that stretch was thus given a priority first ...but this does not mean it will be the only constrution.... there are already orders for ground raders, floating blimps....which are to be intergrated with the fence cause right now its just a fence,

http://www.nation.co.ke/counties/mandera/Kenya-Somalia-border-fence/1183298-3472166-hyn3f6z/
Speaking while inspecting the ongoing works on Thursday, Maj-Gen K.T. Chepkuto from the KDF Engineering Department said a stretch of 30 kilometres will be completed in the next four months.
“We will do the first 30 kilometres within the stipulated time since people are energised,” he said.
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i cant claim to have timeline but the plan is to eventually have control over the whole stretch... but one thing is for sure, the more alshabaab pose a direct threat to kenya by crossing to attack, the faster the fence will be built

Kenya-Somalia Border wall turned fence progress - evetually to include watch towers, FLIR cameras, ground radar, barbed wire, a patrol road along the fence, and hopefully some parmanent paramilitary and army bases along the 700km stretch

Also extracted from a PDF, The formation and equiping of a Radid Deployment Squadron (RDS) for the airforce whose sole purpose would be search and rescue for all KDF troops
Know I can guess where the new C-145A Skytruck transport aircraft will go http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46193:kenya-seeking-skytruck-aircraft-from-us&catid=35:Aerospace&Itemid=107


Rapid Deployment Squadron (RDS) is a Unit that was formed to help in the formulation of new strategies to counter new security challenges. For example, counter-terrorism requires a variety of approaches due to its asymmetrical nature. Others factors include participation in Combat Search & Rescue and disaster response. By nature of their name, they provide first response to reinforce security personnel in strategic locations when need arises or first respondents in disaster situation when called upon.
The idea came progressively following several responses by the Kenya Air Force to various incidences and also from lessons learned after certain events. First, it was during the disaster response in August 1998 following the terrorist attack on the Embassy of United States of America in Nairobi where the Kenya Air Force was the first unit to respond and arrived on site within fifteen minutes. Secondly, the need arose when Search & Rescue plans for Maritime Patrols were being worked out during the 2005 Anti-
Piracy Operations in the Indian Ocean. The Air Force was conducting deep sea surveillance and Search & Rescue plans required rapid response capability. Thirdly, When military operations commenced in Somalia in 2011, the formation of the unit became inevitable as part of the force that would complement Combat Search & Rescue efforts for the operation. Plans were therefore worked out and the unit was actualized around 2014. The establishment of the unit was
preceded by various training both locally and overseas. The initial training of troops began in 2006 as part of capacity
building initiative towards the formation of the unit. Today the unit exists as the Rapid Deployment Squadron (RDS) of the Kenya Air Force.Besides conducting personnel recovery and Combat Search & Rescue the unit[b] is envisaged also to perform [/b] an array of missions including; support to security personnel at vital/strategic installations, carry out special operations in enemy territories and counter terrorism missions such as c[b]lose quarter battle, room/building clearance[/b] bomb detonation
among others.RDS headquarters is at Moi Air Base, Eastleigh. The mandate was accorded to Kenya Air Force since all Services have unique roles. RDS’s roles compliment/support KAF’s role in the changing security environment. Aspects of its
roles such as Combat Search & Rescue and personnel recovery are related to air operations which are in the domain of KAF. Secondly, most Air Force units around the world are structured with very specialized technical trades and
do not include elements to address asymmetric threats that are part of our today’s security challenges. In terms of equipment the Unit is at its early formative stages and is being equipped with modern equipment. When the unit has operated for some time, then it will be possible to determine what equipment needs to be changed or upgraded. This will also depend on several factors based on the unit’s own recommendations from field lessons. The

Well, there is some hope after all in KDFs R & D depatment after all, its nascent but atleast it exists


Extracted from a PDF
At the Nairobi Internation Trade fair

Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) outclassed other participants to top performance at the Nairobi International Trade Fair
(NITF) 2016, which ran between 3rd and 9th October 2016 at the Jamhuri Park, Nairobi.KDF emerged an exemplary organization in performance and display, taking home the enviable Branch Chairperson’s Commendation trophy, which is awarded by the NITF Chairperson on his own analysis of merit.KDF won a total of eight trophies, including the Best Stand in Innovation and Invention. The Defence Forces Technical College (DEFTEC) showcased three innovations: The GSM-Based Electronic Display, Robotic Apparatus for Explosive Detector and Jammer and Intelligent Traffic Control Unit. The GSM (Global System for Mobile) Based Electronic Display can be used as a remote evacuation unit as it has smoke and LPG sensors. In case there is a fire or gas leakage in a house
or a building, one will receive an SMS and reply to it and activate the alarms. The Robotic Apparatus can detect explosives within a certain frequency and jam all network signals, electronics and power lines. The Intelligent City Traffic Control Unit can scan and give priority to where traffic is congested if placed at a roundabout. The two innovations were presented by Cpl Faith Muteti and Cpl Ishmael Owino. Kenya Ordnance Factories Corporation (KOFC) presented the Mobile Computer Laboratory (KOFCLAB) which is aimed at supporting the government’s initiative for the one tablet per child programme. The laboratory is meant to facilitate people in areas with no electricity, no good storage capacity and no security. The KOFCLAB is solar powered, reinforced for security and insulated for air conditioning to make it favorable in all weather conditions. The tablets are also installed with
alarm system to secure them from theft. KDF stand also emerged the Best Organisation in Community Projects/Service for the Defence Forces Kitchen, Disaster Response Unit, the International Peace Support Training Centre and the KOFC. At the arena, KDF won the Best Military Events; Actor/Actress Trophy, Best Overall Arena Event, Best Military Day Events Trophy, and the
Overall Winners at the arena. Kenya Air Force won a trophy for the amazing fireworks display.KDF too emerged the Second Best Stand in Manufacture Goods (non-consumable production), Second Best Large Government Stand, Second Best in Interpreting the Show Theme and the Third Best in Promoting National Cohesion and Integration Development.His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday 5th October visited the KDF Stand, where he in particular took much interest in the amazing innovations that KDF soldiers displayed, which he promised to fully support. The President commended KDF for the outstanding display and encouraged them to continue embarking on the efforts of securing the country bravely and diligently. At the
stand, the Commander-in-Chief was received by the Defence Cabinet Secretary Ambassador Raychelle Omamo accompanied by the
Chief of the Defence Forces General Samson Mwathethe, the Vice Chief of the Defence Forces Lieutenant General Joseph Kasaon, the Defence Principal Secretary Ambassador Kirimi Kaberia and service commanders.The one-week NITF attracted thousands of local and international exhibitors, government departments and small and medium enterprises. KDF made various presentations including the Ministry of Defence Public Affairs Office, the Environmental Soldier Programme, Kenya Army, Kenya Air Force, Kenya Navy, Defence Forces Technical College, Defence Forces Memorial Hospital, International Peace Support Training School, Defence Forces Insurance Scheme, Defence
Forces Comrades Association, Defence Forces Canteen Organization
and KOFC.

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MISOM KDF officers during a three-day medical camp for residents of Hoosingo town, in Lower Jubba. The officers also donated supplies to the schools in the town as part of their civil-military engagement

Looks like KDF is on a renewed campaign to win hearts and minds..
They also donated food stuffs and other things including portable radios through the local District Commissioner in Dhobley