Senior Kenya Defence Force officials were over the weekend forced to airlift water and food supplies to troops marching towards Kismayu after Al Shabaab insurgent fighters dropped poison in one well and vandalised pipes from another in Jana Cabdalla area forty kilometers to the port city.
Military helicopters and vehicles were dispatched to Jana Cabdalla to supply water to troops in three sections of the frontline after the Al Qaeda linked insurgents desperate to stop the AMISOM march to Kismayu poisoned wells. "There has been a problem of water in Jana Cabdalla after Al Shabaab put poison in one well and vandalized the other well. The problem is being addressed. Today, the troops got some water supply and more will be delivered," KDF Information Operation officer Colonel Cyrus Oguna said yesterday.
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