GARISO (Mareeg.com) - Three suspected al-Shabaab members were arrested in Garissa County on Monday.
The three, of Bangladeshi origin but holding British passports, were seized in Alinjugur divisional headquarters when the Land Rover they were travelling in was stopped at a police checkpoint on a road linking Kenya and Somalia. North Eastern deputy police boss Philip Ndolo said the suspects, who claimed to be UK nationals, entered the country through Mombasa. He said the Anti-Terrorist Police Unit in Garissa was interrogating the suspects, who would later be taken to Nairobi to verify their nationalities with the British High Commission. “We need to verify if their passports and visas are genuine,” Mr Ndolo said. Chances were high that the suspects were part of the al-Qaeda international terrorist group that is linked to Somalia’s al-Shabaab terror group, the police boss said. According to him, initial investigations showed that the three used complex routes to avoid police checkpoints to get to the village where they were eventually arrested. Mr Ndolo said information of the three about their destination was suspicious as they claimed to be travelling to Lamu, thousands of kilometres from where they were arrested. In a separate incident, a wanted al-Shabaab operative of Somali origin was arrested at Elwak in Mandera county. “The suspect had been using false names, but was unmasked through investigations,” police said, but declined to give further information. This comes at a time police in Mombasa have stepped up efforts to flush out an outlawed gang suspected to be recruiting youth for the terror group. Border security personnel are on high alert following al-Shabaab threats. Source: Daily Nation
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