Why UHURU/ RUTO didn’t use the same military planes that flew FIDEL ODINGA to fly RECCE

The Government of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy, William Ruto, is still under sharp focus over the slow response to Garissa University attack in which Al Shabaab terrorists senselessly massacred 147 students in cold blood due to lack of a police chopper to fly Recce Squad to the scene to rescue them.

Some security experts have questioned the selective deployment of military planes and helicopters by Uhuru/ Ruto’s Government.

They wondered why the President and his Deputy did not order the deployment of the same military planes and choppers that flew the copse of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s son, Fidel, to Kisumu in January to fly Recce Unit to Garissa to rescue students, after the plane they were to use was reportedly dispatched to Mombasa to pick the daughter in-law of Police Air Wing Commandant, Rodgers Mbithi.

“Uhuru/ Ruto have the luxury to deploy 2 military planes to ferry the copse of a politician’s son to Nyanza and yet they cannot afford to offer the same planes to airlift Recce to Garissa to rescue students,” wondered one of the experts.

Sources intimated that the functional military planes were just idle in Eastleigh on that fateful day even as Recce waited for hours for Mbithi to return the police plane from Mombasa.

The Kenya Wild Life Service planes were also idle at that time but the Government did not loan them to Recee leading to the deaths of 147 students.

However, according to military sources, the police did not request for their help to fly Recce to Garissa, otherwise they would have gladly helped.

According to protocol, for the police to get a military plane, they first have to communicate with the Department of Defence (DoD), but that did not happen.

“KWS does not have capacity to fly them. The only people who could have lifted Recce to Garissa are us, the military. If an okay was given, military helicopters from the Moi Air Base in Eastleigh could have flown directly to the Recce Company base in Ruiru and airlifted the team to Garissa in about one hour and forty minutes at most,” said the KDF officer who refused to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.

Ironically, the same military planes were available to ferry dead bodies of students from Garissa to Nairobi instead of having been used to save them from Al Shabaab bullets.