Response to the Standardmedia.co.ke Web news reports by CYRUS OMBATi and Adow Jubat

The standardmedia web page has become the Degodia people’s mouth piece. We have noticed that they have been reporting unsubstantiated and fabricated stories in order to make the Degodia terrorists seem like the victims after they failed to carry out the unthinkable. This news agency did not report when two vehicles were stopped in El Das. Its occupants were slaughtered and their faces were skinned in a city center. Now the Wajir County officials are crying as if they are the victims when they failed to deliver illegal arms to the Degodia terrorists operating in Mandera County. Enough is enough; the Gharri people have awaken and are ready to defend themselves.  

On “June 27, 2013, by CYRUS OMBATI,

Wajir, Kenya: Five more people were killed in an attack on a village in Wajir County in the ongoing inter-clan conflict. Police and villagers of Hogorale village said the deceased were all from the Murule clan, and people believed to be from the Gareh clan on Tuesday attacked them.” However, there is no such killing took place at all and they failed to correct it. Furthermore, there is no Murale village in Wajir County,

“Sunday June 30, 2013. By Adow Jubat; Wajir County: a team of political and community leaders from Wajir County came under gun ambush in Burmayo village from suspected clan militia.” Again, this is false and unsubstantiated pure fiction.

The Standardmedia.co.ke web employee  Adow Jubat who is from the Degodia clan reported that a vehicle carrying the Wajir County officials including Senator Abdirahman Olow, governor Ahmed Abdullahi, MP Abass Sheikh Mohamed, MP Mohamed Ibrahim Elimi and Wajir County Woman representative Fatuma Ibrahim was ambushed by unknown militias at Burmayo village inTakaba district, Mandera County. However, he did not mention any injury or casualty nor any damages to the said vehicle resulting from the ambush.

So, the question is that if they really were to be ambushed as claimed here by the above mentioned officials, then there would be some damage to the vehicle or to the people.

Secondly, what were the Wajir County elected officials doing over there in Mandera County? Were they there to deliver illegal arms to the Degodia rebels so that they could terrorize Gharri villagers more? Were they there for some peace mission as some claimed? If so, then who sent them there?  It is improbable to escape without being hit when ambushed by an assailant. Therefore, the Wajir County officials’ claim of being ambushed is nothing more than fabricated fiction that is intended to brand the Gharri people as warmongers in order to cover up their own war mission. They went there to supply the Degodia tribal militias with more ammunitions and explosives like the ones captured in Wajir a week ago. So, it is clear that the reasons behind their false information are to create misunderstandings between the government, and Gharri people as well as to create trouble between the Gharri and Murale communities.  

By Gur Gharri June 30, 2013