By Spy Uganda Correspondent
The Kenya Defense Forces Chief of Defense Forces Francis Ogolla is dead at 61.
Gen. Ogolla died Thursday afternoon after a KDF chopper crashed at the Kaben-Cheptulel border between Elgeyo Marakwet and West Pokot counties.
The chopper was reportedly carrying 7 passengers, but it is unclear if there were any survivors. Initially, police stated that 5 occupants had died and Gen. Ogolla was one of them.
The CDF and his delegation were coming from a peace mission in West Pokot and Elgeyo Marawkwe counties.
Gen Francis Omondi Ogolla joined the Kenya Defence Forces on 24 April 1984 and was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant on 6 May 1985 and posted to Kenya Air Force.
In 2023, President Ruto appointed Gen. Ogolla as the new Chief of Defense Forces, taking over from Gen. (https://www.hotelogix.com/) Robert Kibochi whose term came to an end.
About a month ago, the president appointed Gen. Ogolla as the chair of a task force of the Development of Kenya Home of Human Origins Museum and Science Park in the Lake Turkana Basin steering committee.
