Background

It is customary for the UK foreign ministry and the Ministry of Defense (MoD) to boast how the country assist its allies including Kenya to maintain security by training the latter’s military and police and also deploying soldiers in these allies’ territories. London has repeatedly insisted on its ally Kenya to sigh ‘defense’ partnership’ which may make uninformed observer think that Kenya would collapse in one day without British help. However, it is becoming clear that UK’s assistance is nonexistent, and not for stated purpose as soldiers in the British Army Training Unit in Kenya (BATUK) have been seen behaving as thugs on vacation. An article published on 7th April in Mail Online (here), a week before the writing of this article shows how BATUK contingent and its officer class engage in depraved and potentially risky sexual activities, as earlier reports show the same unit being incapable of maintaining hygiene, safekeeping equipment and following the law, and therefore being hooligans. As the UK instigates wars and turmoil across the world, it will be interesting to see how its soldiers, from BATUK will be of any use in achieving military objectives.

Live ‘fire’ Exercise

The UK sends about 10,000 troops to Kenya annually for 8-week long live-firing exercises, but this firing seems to be taking a sexual angle nowadays. The Mail Online article referred to earlier (here) reported that UK soldiers deployed to Kenya were being ‘forced’ to engage in unprotected sex with prostitutes. Further reading reveals that senior British officers were performing initiation ceremonies, in which they would toss a coin to determine whether young soldiers would use protection while performing sexual acts with prostitutes (here). The report leaves out details of where these officers find these prostitutes, if they are underage, or whether they get an opportunity to consent to the use........

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