Thursday, December 12, 2013
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THE European Union has asked Kenyan authorities to make public results of investigations of the Westgate Shopping Mall terror attack.Speaking during a media briefing in Nairobi yesterday, the managing director of Africa Department of European External Action Service at the EU, Nick Westcott, said the government is under obligation to tell its citizens the results of the investigation into the attack.
"I think it is morally right that the government communicates to its citizens what it has been doing about the Westgate attack," he said.
This comes even as a report by the New York Police made public on Tuesday claimed only four terrorists carried out the attack and they all escaped, refuting earlier claims by the government that there were 15 attackers.
Last month, Interior Secretary Joseph ole Lenku said forensic investigations into the mall attack will be released soon.
Westcott said the union will support Kenya in its fight against insurgency.
He however raised concerns over the latest killings of terror suspects at the Coast terming it a breach of human rights and detrimental to the fight against global terrorism.
"One cannot defend human rights and lives while abusing the rights of others," Westcott said.
He lauded efforts made in the fight against the Somalia-based terror group al Shabaab following the deployment of the African Union Mission in Somalia.
"Refugees can only return to where they feel they are safe and that has not been the case," he said.