An investigation by the British Army has found that some soldiers deployed on a controversial basis in Kenya have continued to use sexual workers despite being banned from doing so.
The soldiers of the British Army Training Unit Kenya (Batuk) used sex workers. At the “low or liberal” level, a report stated that more work was needed to do more work to exclude practice.
The investigation covered a period of more than two years, checking the behavior on base dating by July 2022.
This was commissioned after an investigation by ITV in the behavior of soldiers in Batuk in October 2024, including allegations that some army personnel were paying local women for sex.
The ITV documentary followed the previous concerns raised about Batuk after the death of a local female Agnes Vanjiru in 2012, who was allegedly killed by a British soldier by a British soldier.
Since then, a wire of allegations about the operation of soldiers at the training site has been made, which is located near the city of Nanuki 200 km (125 mi) to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.
In 2022, the UK Ministry of Defense banned its forces from using sexual workers abroad, which was as part of efforts to curb sexual exploitation and misuse in the army.
The UK Chief of Defense Staff General Sir Roli Walker said in a statement that the army was committed to prevent sexual abuse in its ranks.
He said, “The conclusion of the findings of the service investigation concludes that the sex of the transaction in Kenya is still happening at a minimum of moderate. It should not be at all,” he said.
He said, “There is no place in the British Army for sexual exploitation and abuse by people. It is fully to be a British soldier.
Service check check The four people were performed by a panel, consisting of two serving officers, a civil servant and an independent advisor.
It investigated the behavior of the soldiers posted in Batuk and assessed the army system to prevent violations of its regulation JSP 769, which prevents soldiers from paying for sex.
The report gives a description of 35 examples in which Batuk soldiers were suspected of paying for sex, as the guidance for soldiers on the rule was published in July 2022. During that period 7,666 British soldiers served on the basis.
It notes that out of those, 26 cases took place in November of that year before starting training on the new rule for all army employees, since then with nine cases. In most cases, the allegations made by the soldiers for sex have never been proved.
In addition to the detailed people in the report, the Foreign Office told the BBC that currently had a small number of less than five numbers of alleged use of sex workers under investigation. There were alleged incidents after the investigation ended.
The report states that despite the training and control measures given by the army, the reality was that the “sexual activity of the transaction” was still happening by the UK personnel in Kenya, and that “the level is low and the medium somewhere”.
“It is not out of control, but the best way to manage the risk for the army is to assume that it can be at the upper end of that scale between low and medium,” the report states.
The report mentions efforts by the army to seal the practice, including regular training and the use of “sharkwatch” patrolling, deployed to monitor the conduct of junior personnel deployed with or above with a senior officer of the surgist rank.
The army said it would implement recommendations from the report, in which it would be easy to dismiss the sex workers and soldiers found for the implementation of additional training.
The report is the time of controversy about the conduct of soldiers in Batuk till Sunday Times in 2021, which revealed the alleged involvement of a British soldier in the murder of Ms. Vanjiru, whose body was dumped in a septic tank near a hotel, where she was seen with soldiers at night.
Separately in Kenya, the MPs are investigating the widespread allegations of misconduct by the soldiers in the MP Batuk and have heard claims on the public hearing of injuries allegedly through the behavior of British soldiers and left them the father of the children’s father and then when they returned home for Kenyan mothers.
In June this year, a soldier posted on the base was sent back to Britain after returning to rape.
The service of the service behind the latest report states that he spoke to many local Kenyan people and found that the “vast majority” of the local residents were happy with the presence of the Batuk camp.
