Njunge wrote:It's not the first time the Eldoret Ordinance factory has been implicated in this.It happened in 1992,1997 and now......what use does this facility serve?
Not necessarily. KOFC has significant strategic security benefits for the country and the region.
The stringent internal checks coupled with daily accountability for each round of ammo that comes out of production at KOFC makes it impossible for even a single round (let alone the 100k) to leave the gates of the factory without the express authority of the highest office at Department of Defence Headquarters.
Luckily for KOFC, each batch of production and supply is given a unique serial number and therefore the CID should by now pinpoint exactly which arm of the security forces were given these crates of ammunition. The CID should also have by now zeroed in on the particular arm and pin pointed exactly who/when/where/how was allocated / supplied with the seized crates and if they have so far been accounted for, how they found their way to Narok, without NSIS getting to know about it - virtually impossible, unless.......(guess is as good as mine)!
It is so easy to resolve this. What is clear is such a large quantity MUST have had the approval or authority of someone very high up in ranking, probably higher than chief investigator Iteere himself, to reach civilian hands.
Since all of the armed forces (Army, Navy, Ariforce, Police, AP, KWS, KFS, etc) rely 100% on KOFC supplies, it is obvious that this cache found its way into the civilian world through one of these disciplines. Millions of rounds of ammo are distributed to hundreds of personnel at infantries/battalions of the armed forces spread all over Kenya for training,reconnaissance, defence, patrol, etc. A small percentage is also distributed locally to licenced civilian fire arm holders while others are exported through known and traceable channels.
That said, this is a very serious lapse that has grave implications in compromising national security and I am sure even as I type these lines, no less a person than the CIC is being briefed about the whole saga.