Residents of Mpeketoni, Lamu County continue to lament on the ill treatment by the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldiers.
Recently,the KDF soldiers forced some of the residents to swim in sewage as part of their interrogation.
The heavily armed soldiers were deployed to the county to ward off al-Shabaab militant who were unleashing terror to the residents in operation “linda Boni”.
However hundreds of residents have fled their homes after what they termed as a cruel KDF operation around Boni forest.
They complained that the soldiers treated them as terrorists and also exposed innocent people to unnecessary torture in the name of flushing out al-Shabaab.
The officers, residents said, become more barbaric whenever al-Shabaab militia strike their base and injure them.
They now want Lamu County Commander and County Commissioner to move swiftly and check on the soldiers’ conduct during the operation.
Few months ago five Kenyan soldiers were killed and six others wounded after their vehicle ran over an Improvised Explosive Device in Kwa Omolo area, Boni Forest Lamu County.
Witnesses say the KDF lorry was moving from Baragoni towards Bodhei area when the incident happened.
The soldiers were on a routine security patrol. No major attacks have been reported in the forest since the Kenya defense forces moved in for a special operation to flush out the Al- Shabaab in July 2017.