Duale says KDF deployment during protests forestalled major catastrophe

Former Defence Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has disclosed that the country would have been thrown into a major crisis if the Kenya Defense Forces were not deployed to assist police at the height of anti-government protests in June.

While defending the decision to call in men and women in the military to the streets at the time, Duale said their deployment did not just restore law and order but stopped the loss of many lives including by elected leaders who he said had been targeted by criminal elements who were hiding behind the protests largely led by youth.

“I didn’t deploy KDF, the framers of the Constitution put Article 241 3(b) and 3(c) in the Constitution. If the KDF had not assisted the other security agents, many MPs would have died. Parliament would have burned,” he told MPs vetting his nomination to be the next CS for Environment