MERCHANTS
OF DEATH
Last week, Friday October , 18th 2013;
like the rest of my fellow Kenyan citizens looking forward to quench my thirst
on what really happened at Westgate, I (the writer) joined KTN investigation
team of Mohammed Ali and John Allan Namu. I watched as they premiered the
startling details of what the public has never known about the Westgate Mall
attack.
Kenyans took to the social Medias after watching the
exclusive footage, which in itself contradicts almost everything that the Government
has been telling the public.
The facts unveiled how the Westgate terror plot was
developing fast far away in Somalia and in the Kakuma Refugee Camp; the biggest
one in the world and one established in 1992 to serve Sudanese refugees.
The iconic Westgate Mall was the centerpiece of
their plan. The mall insured through UK’s Lloyd’s for about sh 6.6. Billion,
was constructed several wall thick with the ability to withstand heavy bombardment.
The clip shows Kenyan Alakene; one of the terrorists
who gave a child a chocolate bar after the young boy told him that “ he is a very bad man” and who is
captured by CCTV cameras escorting children out of the mall.
The CCTV cameras go ahead to reveal
misunderstandings between different security agencies. The Recce Squad was
being led by Inspector James Maamri. When KDF shot at them, the G.S.U men
scampered for safety and then an exchange of words and pointing of guns between
members of the Police forces most elite unit, Recce Squad, and its equal in the
military, Rangers Strike Force, took place. The following is a transcribed
excerpt from the ugly exchange between the military and police:
“Stop
talking too much (keep your mouth shut);” one soldiers shouts
at a GSU man who replies with the abuse, “your mother.” In the footage, an
angry GSU officer curses, “the military shot us! F**** them.”
It’s apparently during this confrontation that
constable Martin Kithinji was shot dead and another GSU man shot on the leg.
The footage goes ahead to show the terrorists in
calm and relaxed mood; and even took time to pray in the back room of the
Nakumatt store. It looks like a waiting game situation, with the real drama
unfolding on the outside.
The clips go ahead to contradict the Government that
had maintained the terrorists were hiding hostages. The four men brandishing
AK-47 guns go on a firing spree-firing anyone on sight and panic engulfs the
mall.
Then the big question of who was looting and who
drank beer at the joints gets complicated. Soldiers are caught picking snacks
and walking into Nakumatt, guns hanging by their sides, and then leaving with
handful of paper bags.
With the dust setting on Westgate, the KTN
investigations have revealed so many questions yet very few answers; poor
response to terror attack and disharmony in the security agencies’’ fight to
recapture Westgate.
By
Embukane Vincent Libosso
