Ali Roba questions why Kenyan soldiers are part of an African Union force propping up the Somali government – leaving their own country unprotected to a wave of cross-border attacks by al-Shabab militants.

Last Friday, Ali Roba’s convoy was attacked in Mandera leaving three dead.

It was one of a string of recent attacks by the al-Qaeda-linked militants.

Roba says the public isn’t fooled by assurances that security is being beefed up and will do what they have to do unless the national government stops the attacks.

In November, al Shabab gunmen held up a bus outside Mandera town, separated passengers according to religion and executed 28 non-Muslims.

Ten days later 36 non-Muslim quarry workers were also massacred in the area.

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Two soldiers were killed but the official, Ali Roba, is unhurt.

Al Shabab’s sworn to revenge Kenya getting militarily involved in Somali government efforts to oust the jihadis.

So it’s launched several deadly cross border raids into Mandera.

Al Shabaab’s military operations spokesman Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab says his fighters hit the convoy travelling between Mandera and Wajir, two northeastern Kenyan towns close to the porous border with Somalia.

Kenya’s military forces says the governor’s convoy was attacked but its forces were not engaged.

The governor has been campaigning strongly for security to be stepped up against attacks from across the border.

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