Nkarissery Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/nkarissery/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Nkarissery Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/nkarissery/ 32 32 Kenyan minister’s mea culpa over Garissa attack https://jjcornish.com/2015/04/kenyan-ministers-mea-culpa-over-garissa-attack/ Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/04/kenyan-ministers-mea-culpa-over-garissa-attack/ Kenya’s interior minister admits security officers ignored intelligence reports prior to the attack on Garissa University College earlier this month. The minister, who is in charge of security, also admitted that the response was poorly co-ordinated. The mea culpa from Kenya’s Interior Minister Joseph Nkarissery follows the worst terror attack in that country by the […]

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]]> Kenya’s interior minister admits security officers ignored intelligence reports prior to the attack on Garissa University College earlier this month.

The minister, who is in charge of security, also admitted that the response was poorly co-ordinated.

The mea culpa from Kenya’s Interior Minister Joseph Nkarissery follows the worst terror attack in that country by the Somali based Al Shabab militants who killed 148 people during the day-long siege at the campus in the north-eastern town.

Following a wave of public anger over the obvious security failings, Nkarissery suspended seven policemen.

The students had received memos warning of possible violence and the principal of Garissa University College asked in vain for additional security at the campus.

Most of those who died in the raid were students.

The attackers singled out Christians to be killed and spared Muslims.

 

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