ICC Note:

Al-Shabaab has increased its attacks on Kenyan soil. Their attacks on Garissa teachers has caused a schooling crisis as teacher have fled the region. Al-Shabaab entered an elementary school, and shot a Christian teacher. They were about to shoot another Christian teacher when his Muslim colleague stepped in front of him to defend him, angered, Al-shabaab took them both hostage. The incident has increased fears among Christians in Garissa and they have petitioned their government for more security.

06/15/2017 Kenya (Sight) – Suspected al-Shabaab militants walked into an elementary school compound in northeastern Kenya on 31st May and shot a Christian teacher to death, sources said.

Elly Oloo Ojiema was shot at Fafi Primary School in Fafi, about 100 kilometres from Garissa.

“The suspected al-Shabaab militants entered the school compound and right away fired on the teacher who was teaching the pupils,” one of the sources said.

The suspected members of the Somali rebel group kidnapped another Christian teacher, Joseph Kamau, along with a Muslim teacher who tried to defend him, the sources said. Trying to shield the Kenyan Christian, the Muslim teacher of Somali descent told the assailants he would die with him, according to a Somali Muslim teacher who requested anonymity.

“The Al Shabaab got angry,” the teacher told Morning Star News, “and told the teacher, ‘We are going to teach you a lesson for protecting the infidels,’ and immediately the two were carried away to unknown destination.”

Mr Ojiema was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church. Mr Kamau belongs to the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA).

Before escaping with Mr Kamau, the militants beat Muslims of Somali descent at the school for housing Kenyan Christians.

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