Kenya confronts UK, Italy on ‘sins' of their citizens in rights violations probe
Soldiers walk as they prepare for an overnight simulated military exercise of the British Army Training Unit in Kenya at the ol-Daiga ranch, high on Kenya’s Laikipia plateau on March 26, 2018. PHOTO | AFP
Neil Wigan, the British High Commissioner-designate to Kenya, has not even presented his credentials yet, but he may already be thinking of how to deal with an old problem: An inquiry into alleged atrocities inflicted on Kenyans by his country’s soldiers at their training unit in northern Kenya.
This and another tussle involving the Malindi Space Centre, a collaboration project between Kenya and Italy, could test the mettle of Kenyan legislators investigating matters that test the country’s foreign relations.
