Major General Jeff Nyagah ~ Legendary KDF Peacekeeper Leading East African Community Regional Force in DRC
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The man Commanding the joint EAC troops, which comprise among others 902 Kenyan troops, mandated with dealing with M23 rebels and restoring peace in Eastern Congo, is no stranger to high level peace keeping deployment.
Maj. Gen. Jeff Nyagah has a highly decorated military career spanning over 30 years. His most recent high level posting was Sector II Commander of AMISOM, and Contingent Commander of Kenyan troops serving in Somalia under AMISOM.
Born in Loitokitok, Kajiado district, Major General Nyagah, the last-born in a family of three children, went to school in the same area and joined KDF in 1991 as a cadet officer and was commissioned the following year in 1992.
Nyagah is the man who led Kenyan troops when the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) made the incursion into Somalia in pursuit of al-Shabaab terrorists in October 2011. By then, he was a Lieutenant Colonel.
That KDF troops had never engaged in a full-fledged war was not lost on the Ministry of Defence mandarins, who had made the decision for the incursion in pursuit of the al-Shabaab.
It was during the rainy season in a treacherous terrain, but this did not dissuade a determined Col Nyagah and the troops he was leading. It is in honour of the day he led the gallant soldiers that the ministry saw it fit to dedicate October 14 as KDF Day.
The troops had stopped at a GSU base in Harhar to await final orders. But when they just crossed the border, Col Nyagah lost Corporal Kiptum, the first casualty. It is this man who pushed al-Shabaab from close to the Kenya-Somalia border into the interior, where they remain.
His daring actions buoyed the morale of the soldiers under his command. He has twice been deployed to African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) due to his bravery.
Major General Nyagah has already registered his entry into DRC in style. This week, he assured the world that no one will take Goma. He pledged to protect Goma Airport.
Nyagah, has called upon the armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to cease hostilities against the population.
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