Kenya: Military Chief Among 10 Killed in Helicopter Crash | Firstpost America
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- Kenya: Military Chief Among 10 Killed in Helicopter Crash | Firstpost America
Kenyan Military Chief, General Francis Omondi Ogolla, has died in a helicopter crash in the northwest of the country. Along with him, 11 other military personnel were onboard the chopper. While nine of the officers also passed away, two managed to survive. Kenyan President William Ruto has declared three days of national mourning. He also called Ogolla's demise his "personal loss" and hailed the military chief for his nearly 40 years of service. Ogolla was appointed the Chief of Defence Forces in April last year. He also served as the top military adviser to the president. The Kenyan Air Force has launched a probe into the incident to discover the cause of the crash. Meanwhile, Kenyan media reported that this was the fifth chopper crash in the country in the last 12 months.
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This is very sad. I mourn with Kenya 🇰🇪 all the way from Zambia 🇿🇲. May the Souls of the gallant soldiers rest in glory
Ftdvhv
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I remember the moment of sadness when we lost our first CDS of India General Bipin Rawat on 8th Dec 2021 a valiant officer died in a perfectly conditioned helicopter crash due to inclement weather
And finally Kenya 's Military chief was killed ... was he on a wanted list or he was on the run ? Just wondering.
We don't take Kenya seriously
As a Kenyan I would tell you this president has a track record of taking people out.........for dinner
@KIM-xl6zs maybe you should be a visitor to the state. For 2 days only, you let us know what we don't
@@alexkibe4179katishe mamako
@@alexkibe4179tishia wajinga wenzako kalemeno
He appointed him because he had no option. He found his hands tied by the David Tonje rules of succession. So what means could be applied to get him out of that position? A month or so before, he appointed some deputy who likely is in line for succession. It raises questions. hIt's the darkest 5 years the country is going through. Don't wish a leader like this even for your enemy.
Tonje rules are not in the constitution my Fren. He can choose whoever he wants
Lemmi enlighten you before you look stupid online Ogolla was to retire within a year. So the conspiracies you try to create only exist in your head
Tonje Rules are not written anywhere nor ratified by anybody.Tonje himself has said in an interview.
The president if the appointing authority of the military.If Ruto had wanted to ingnore Ogollas appointment he could have as he was presented 10 generals by the defense council for CDF job.
The president decides who is going to be general.
Uhuru retired Kasaon prematurely in 2018 because of Handshake politics to pave way for Kibochi and Ogolla in prep for 2022 general elections.
Let as leave it upon God😢
Sorry hear this news...same thing happened Bipin Rawat chief of indian army.
Both were gem for their nation.
May his soul rest in peace..
Every soldier or any country fighting for any reason..I salute them.
I blame mt Kenya for all the happenings in Kenya, they voted rogue regime
Thanks my all what is happening in Kenya and Kenyans at large is because of kikuyus and kalejin. See how this man call itself rais wa Kenya na ni hypocrites
Ruto wasn't the pilot,how is he to blame,stop peddling your foolishness to the world 😮
Which vote? Voting doesn’t count,leadership is « taken « in Kenya
Ruto is so reckless it’s obvious
Maybe he was killed, such things mostly happens in Pakistan.
Indian General Rawat and his wife also got killed a couple of years ago in a helicopter crash... it could happen in India too😅
This is the atmosphere here in Kenya,we believe he was killed by the very president
Too many fishes to fry my brother..so sad indeed!
@@vokealutah4675 😪
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Big loss indeed, may their soul rest in peace and speedy recovery for survivors
Somebody is stealing the money ment for the service of the helicopters,we have over five helicopter crash in the past one year alone
13 in 4 years alone.
Ni hii ujinga ya kusema defense budget ikue siri ya jeshi pekee.
Hapo ndio ufisadi huingia.
12 crashes in 9 months alone!!
Safety was obviously the last resort
It cannot be 'A personal loss' if you have to read a message written by others.
So sorry for that loss may God confort their families
Rip rest of peace soul 😭
Am Kenyan. He was assassinated by the so called president, who bore a grudge against him for allegedly trying to influence the past presidential election results. Just some clarity, the president didn’t have any option rather than appoint him because the Kenyan military has internal standing orders regarding the selection of the country’s Military Chief. Basically, it’s a rotational system that sees the position change smoothly among the three military units (i.e, the Army, Airforce, and Navy). So the military simply selects and nominates the best to the president, who then has no alternative but to do the needful - appoint the nominee. The so called president is answerable for this …
To the editors of FIRSTPOST, He might have had a hand in his demise. There's a certain video whereby he says the following, "General Ogolla was among the people who tried to overturn my victory at Bomas." He then goes on to claim about how he still gave him the job because of his qualifications but in reality that's not the case.
There are some succession rules that are called the Tonje rules which have been followed by former presidents Kibaki and Uhuru which if he could have ignored and appointed somebody else the military could have a poor chemistry with him threatening a coup thus leaving him with no option. But it looks like he later on found an elimination method.
How do you survive with such brain of yours? Don't you feel enslaved? Tonje tonje rule, how ignorant are you. Revisit Tonjes statement pls, those are not even bills but mere suggestions never binding at all.
Enda ufunze Familia yako mjinga. Unaandika a whole paragraph unadhani Kuna salary ya fitina
...ehh...firstpost said...was killed....!!...
..that sums it all....!!!...
Allow people to speak freely. You are showing is what kind of human being you are by reacting like this.
very unfortunate loss
Correction Ogolla did not try to overturn Ruttos win. Its in Narcissist Ruttos head simply because Ogolla and Raila are from one tribe
@nairobi804
Repeat garbage abd u will finally believe. The Gen and Amos Wako visited the Elections Chief n tried to get him to change the results in favour of RAO.
Wacha utoto!
@@raanajak471kwa hivyo he had gradges with them from time ya election akaamua kumuua sa atafaidika na nini
@@raanajak471wauaji wako wengine kumbe ww pia ni mmoja wao .
Correct. Even him knows why Ogolla was there.
This is so devastating😢..May their souls rest in eternal Peace.
In kenya 🇰🇪 we are morning😢the pilot who passed on was from our County
mourning
Sabotage like Prigozhin?
exactly
You are Right
Yes
Military failed us, they put their most important in a wreck!
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May their souls find eternal rest. They died protecting their country and people 🙏🏾🙌🏾
Big loss. Many families will remain without their fathers. Mwela from Zambia
Sad😢
Whatever goes around comes around..if my general died in the hands of men..may God not spare them..
😢😢😢Luo lives matter. Is it a crime to be a LUO IN KENYA. Each and every decade we have to loose a Luo in government. 😢😢😢😢😢 where did we go wrong. This is too much we cant take it. The government assasinated him with 9 others as they did to Tom Mboya, Ouko Makaseda, Musando, Orwa Ojode, George Saitoti JM kariuki, Jacob Juma😢😢😢😢😢
You need counseling
So what are you insinuating? Why jump to conclusions?
General oketch Laketch and Uganda speaker olara are are among prominent luo Uganda killed recently by Museveni.
Luo should unite from all corners@@jackgorshowusa5943
As Kenya we are not shocked because security leaders were always assassinated... Talk of Saitoti , Nkaiseri , Ogolla to mention but a few
Iyo ujinga ya uislamu na usomali peleka Gaza
@@Believingitright ujinga ni wewe..stuff like these is obvious
How dare you abuse Somalia yet they occupy some of the most important security dockets@B.they are even rumoured to comprise of at least 1/4 of the military @@Believingitright
How dare this person abuse somali
@@BelievingitrightSomali is a tribe in Kenya. They are hundred percent Kenyans but a foolish young man like would never know that .. Do you know that Western Kenya (Abaluhya, Luo, Kalenjin, Kisii) was a Ugandan territory?
EXELLENT MILITARY VALUES AGAINST BAD POLITICAL INFLUENCE.. might be the cause not the chopper
Kenya Kenya Kenya si gari inauwa watu tena ndege nini mbaya Ruto umeingiza ushoga ndani ya nchi ona sasa
Damn shame aircraft from the Vietnam era....What are these African mis-leaders doing with the money.....SHAMEFUL
😂😂😂😂😂misleaders 😂😂😂😂😂
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It was an American model but sabotage might have been the cause of the accident
If you sent them for a TV they would buy the 1960 black and white TV.
Very sad news
My biggest question is,where are the two survivors? Do they have idea of what happened? Are they safe? Could they be allowed to talk?
So Sad 😢 to heal this is very tragically RIP to all soldiers lost his Life 😢😢😢.🇷🇼
So sad for our brothers in Kenya 😢 May their Souls RIP
Collateral damage is too high to take out one Ogolla, he should have taken Kidero or the Langata buffoon Jalango. Rutos list keeps growing from the ICC witness, AP at government office, Juma and others. France, UK and USA selected this jambazi for Kenyans.
Murdered?
You're the murderer
Helicopter crash
The propeller just stopped functioning while they were on air
@@Skoki_dramaqueen accident?or staged accident?
@@santusanturohit4832 Hehe how can it be stage managed now that that was the second take off?
Give us the options pls?
By who?
Very sad, may God receive all their souls
We can read fowlplay everytime there's death of a prominent leader. Kenya has lost a greater worrier.
Due to politics children have been left orphans 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
We took down Moi and Biwot.Total man.#Nairobi We fought for democracy from a dictatorship.We will not let you win.#Kibera.
Same accident like our Cds😢😢😢
Ruto did not win, so there were no reason for Rig Ogolla to overturn Ruto Sorry
The thumbnail is from the Philippine Navy's Robinson R22 trainer chopper crashed early this month.
what a shame, a country loosing a chief of KDF in a helicopter crash ..... what does this show?
Man used huey vietnam war chopper .
So sad .Rip sir
Thorough investigation needed since there’s tendency of grudges involving with allegations of lies about mbamas of Kenya n elections 😢
Was it shot down
Nooo
The propeller just stopped functioning while they were on air
@Skoki_dramaqueen what could have been the reason of not functioning
@@christine4072 I donno miss
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RIP
Somehow, President Ruto's fingerprints are all over the crime scene. RIP General.
So arrived at the crime scene sooner than the investigators?Interesting.
Wait until NIS tracks your account for further info.
@@ronothebaringoboy.1070 who the faak is NIS?
If we all had such deranged and warped kinds of minds as yours, Kenya will sink to the abyss
@@ronothebaringoboy.1070jamaa ameamua hutamuuzia uwoga😅😅😅😅😅 hanunui
@@Skoki_dramaqueen si muuzi uwoga.Kuna wasee walishikwa jana na NIS na anti-terror ATPU over hii story ya Ogolla conspiracy theories.They might be charged with cyber crime. You are gangster until masked men in Subarus come knocking at your door.
pole sana
This is deeper than being told. This Story makes no sense in so many ways and Willism Ruto knows what happened and uganda too.
what about saitoti you hypocrite?? was Ruto even near dp?,,, such your memory well
@@MaryMaulo-gk2ln you just dont get how these things work. You dont need to also
Rip😢😢😢
Ruto a Gangster president
Thumbnail is a robinson r22 in philippines. Pls fix thumbnail
Very very unfortunate for Kenya
Condolences to the family.Kenya we have the worst leadership 😭😭😭
"Developed in the 1950s and widely used by the US military during the Vietnam war". How many years old?
God gives,God takes Rip ogolla
Why did he say ' Finally '.....
😮😮😮 I heard it too.
Because a renowned Activist(Cyprian Nyakundi) had already broken the news some hours before the president confirmed.
Tragic incident. In the case of the SPLM leader, Gen. John Garang, it was the inclemid weather.
In the near future Tanzania will be sorrounded wit Conflicts,its easy to see that
We blame the country's president
I am certain that, ata ukishindwa kulisha familia yako, you will still make it about the President or government. Serial complainers
Why? How? Please stop spreading misinformation while we are Mourning the Death Of our General.
I'm sure you're struggling in life. Need some milk??
shame on you
How?
Very sad being a Kenyan I feel heartbroken
It is painful 😭😭😭...
Rest in peace CDF..... pass my greetings to my mum and tell her I miss her so much.... It's my hope we shall meet in heaven.
My heartfelt condolences to the family 😢😢
That guy had a pure soul.RIP Ogola your already missed 😢
So they want to tell us same planes were not there during moi,kibaki and uhuru Kenyatta regimes? You wanna tell us military wasn't flying? What a fuckery.
He is the main suspect he knows the saga gvt stage managed
He is deeply " saddened" by assassination of his head of military
Very saddened
Accident or assassination
Kenyans know just like the world knows what’s going on in Gaza. Amefanya ile kitu. He learnt from MO1
@@p.be.s😢
Politics is a dirty game
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R.I.P Kenyan Military Chief, General Francis Omondi Ogolla AND PLEASE TELL.... GOD .....EVERYTHING THAT YOU KNOW AND HEARD ABOUT.... W.RUTO...MURDERS..AND EXTORTION..FEAR NO EVIL....CAUSE YOU ARE IN GODS HANDS ...
Rip
Very sad
Careless reporting!!! Who KILLED him? can you explain that? he was involved in a crash.
Walio fanya mpango wa kumuua mkuu wa majeshi navwenzake,basi kama ni mipango ya mungu nisawa ,lakini ikiwa ni wanadamu ndo walimfanyizia ,basi hataoza kaburini,mpaka wengine watamfuata ,juu ni uchungu sana ,hasa kwa wakenya hasa vijana kuona hali kama hii ya kutatanisha ,kenya mzima
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Sorry for your loss. Pls don’t send soldiers to Haiti
Nowadays Idont have any taste of our president unlike his first days in the office
Meee too since aingie iliisha tuu😢😢😢 nilimpenda before akue president he might have working with dark powers 😢😢😢
@@christine4072I don't understand how you didn't see all these before. It was evident that he wasn't who he said he was
They know,but always happen everywhere nothing to do with it.
Wizara ya ulinzi ya kenya hamko makini mnampakiage general kwenye helcopta iliyotengenezwa 1950 acheni utani na maisha ya watu
You don't understand this things...this kind of helicopters have been in production since 1950s to 1987..they were later upgraded to have digital cockpits . Though I agree they are old , assuming this was of the last batch of 87 ,.giving it 37yrs would be a possible way to know its airworthiness.
Rip our chif
Uganda lost over 30 army generals, Kenya seems to be learning bad means of eliminating generals for power stay and fear of bad governance...I said seem.
Controversial
😢 it's what happen in Mozambique. Samora Machel
You guys need to work on your thumbnails. Smiling pose at tragedy news is not in good taste
Rip ogolla😢
Yes he was killed because he was not agreed with ruto to involve kenya into DRC war
We kwenda uko Dar , kenya is stable 😂😂😂😂
Why "finally ", it looks like you have been trying to kill him from before.
He was Helper Killers of Journalist Arshad Shareef....
Your journalist was assassinated by Hit men or most likely Hired Cops. General of the Army and his Men were not involved
Did I hear Uganda border??????😮😮😮
Assassinated.. Stupid move! What did he go to do in the Stupid mission
I am kenyan,let me explain.
And this way, Ruto is showing that him and his White boss will kill the ones who speak the truth and don't support him.
Killed? Give kenyans more information its like you know something that kenyans don't know
Me as a Ugandan 😢i send my condolence to my neighbors 😢but am sure very soon MAANDAMANO INAJJA😢
😂😂😂 chopper was used by USA in Vietnam war 😮😮😮😮 what a joke
This explains everything. given it's also a single engine. Same as our baby jet fighters also from 1968. Coz it's an American doesn't mean it's perfect
Wos kild bay huu😮
Was killed!!!!!!??????