STORY: AMISOM Commends Senior

Officers For Exemplary Work

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DATELINE: 23/JUNE/2016, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
SHORT LIST
1. Wide shot, AMISOM military senior officers attending a
farewell dinner for fellow officers at the end of their tour of
duty
2. Close up shot, Col. Venant Bibonimana, outgoing sector
5 commander at the ceremony
3. Close up shot, Col. Stephen Mulenga, outgoing Chief of
Civil Military Cooperation at the event
4. Close up shot, Maj. Gen. Nakibus Lakara, AMISOM Acting
Force Commander attending the event.
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hon. Lydia Wanyoto,
Deputy Head of the African Union Mission in Somalia
(AMISOM)
May you go back home full of pride that you have served Africa and
Somalia well.
6. Close up shot, Brig. Gen. Cyprien Ndikuriye, AMISOM
Military Chief of Staff at the event
7. Close up shot, Col. Peter Chege, AMISOM Chief Security
Officer listening
8. Close up shot, Hon. Lydia Wanyoto, Deputy Head of the
African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) at the event
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Maj. Gen. Nakibus Lakara,
AMISOM Acting Force Commander
I want to thank you for your individual and collective contribution
to the AMISOM mandate.
10.
Close up shot, Col. Caesar Bahwezi, AMISOM Chief
Military Information Officer at the event
11.
Med shot, Hon. Lydia Wanyoto, Deputy Head of the
African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), Maj. Gen. Lakara
Nakibus, AMISOM Acting Force Commander at the event

12.
SOUNDBITE: (English) Col. Stephen Mulenga,
outgoing Chief of Civil Military Cooperation
To win this war we need to win over the people and I think as long
as we do not do that the war will be long and very difficult.
13.
SOUNDBITE: (English) outgoing Squadron
Leader Isaac Oppong
14.
We have tried to do our best and we wish that
they (those left behind) continue and succeed in fulfilling
AMISOM mandate.
15.
Med shot, guests at the ceremony
16.
Med shot, Hon. Lydia Wanyoto, Deputy Head of the
African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), Maj. Gen. Lakara
Nakibus, AMISOM Acting Force Commander at the event
17.
SOUNDBITE: (French) Col. Venant
Bibonimana, outgoing sector 5 commander
AMISOM needs strong support from all international partners and
friends who have come to help Somalia achieve peace and security.
18.
Close up shot, officers at the event
AMISOM Commends Senior Officers For Exemplary Work In
Somalia
Mogadishu, June 23, 2016 - The African Union Mission in Somalia
(AMISOM) has commended six senior army officers for their
outstanding contribution to the peacekeeping mission in Somalia as
their tour of duty comes to an end.
The Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African
Union Commission (DSRCC) for Somalia, Lydia Wanyoto,
commended the officers at a farewell dinner hosted in Mogadishu on
Wednesday. The ceremony was also attended by the Acting AMISOM
Force Commander Maj. Gen. Nakibus Lakara and AMISOM Military
Chief of Staff, Brig. Gen. Cyprien Ndikuriye.
Three of the six officers - Col. Stephen Mulenga, the Chief of Civil
Military Cooperation (CIMIC) from Zambia; Col. Venant Bibonimana,
the Sector Five Commander from Burundi and Squadron Leader,
Isaac Oppong, from Ghana, were present at the farewell dinner.
Three other officers were honored in absentia, having already
rotated out. They are: Lt. Col. Richard Ndiwimana (Burundi); Maj.
Sunday Egga Akbavan (Nigeria) and Captain Wario Godana
Galgalloh (Kenya).

DSRCC Lydia Wanyoto said the officers had served selflessly and had
helped the mission deliver on its mandate.
May you go back home full of pride that you have served Africa and
Somalia well, Wanyoto said.
Thanking the officers for their contribution, AMISOMs Acting Force
Commander Maj. Gen. Nakibus Lakara noted that despite hardships,
the officers had shown the spirit of pan-Africanism and made their
mark in helping the mission deliver its mandate.
AMISOM has been in Somalia since 2007 to assist the Federal
Government of Somalia to establish institutions necessary for
stability and the rule of law. The Mission has also trained hundreds
of Somali police officers and military personnel as part of its
mandate to stabilize Somalia.