Nairobi, April 19 -- Kenya Defence Forces chief General Francis Omondi Ogolla was on his way to the Recruits Training School in Uasin Gishu County to inspect construction works at the facility after inspecting the ongoing reconstruction of schools destroyed by bandits in the troubled North Rift region shortly before his death.

The CDF left Nairobi on Thursday morning on a working tour to visit troops deployed in the North Rift under Operation Maliza Uhalifu and inspect ongoing school rehabilitation works at Chesitet Primary School, Cheptulel Boys High School, Chepoton Primary School, Ksaa Primary School and Sablimoi Primary School aboard the Kenya Air Force Huey helicopter, it has emerged.

Dozens of schools in the North Rift have been v...